1706 in Canada

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Events from the year 1706 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • French Monarch: Louis XIV
  • English, Scottish and Irish Monarch: Anne

Governors[]

Events[]

  • In 1706, the census of New France was 16,417.[1]

Births[]

  • February 2, 1706: Claude-Godefroy Coquart, missionary (died 1765)
  • August 21, 1706: Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville, French Jesuit and amateur botanist (died 1757)
  • James Abercrombie, British Army general and commander-in-chief of forces in North America during the French and Indian War (died 1781)

Deaths[]

  • July 9, 1706: Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville: Canadian-born French explorer who established settlements in what is now southern Louisiana (born 1661).
  • October 11, 1706: Marguerite Bourdon (religious order name, Mother Saint-Jean-Baptiste): one of the foundresses of the Hôpital Général in Quebec; known for her work with the poor (born October 12, 1642).[2]
  • November 25, Jacques Le Ber merchant and seigneur in Montreal, New France.

References[]

  1. ^ Statistics of Canada, Fourth Volume
  2. ^ "Biography – BOURDON, MARGUERITE, de Saint-Jean-Baptiste – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".


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