1708 in Canada

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Events from the year 1708 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • French Monarch: Louis XIV
  • British and Irish Monarch: Anne

Governors[]

  • Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
  • Governor of Acadia: Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
  • Governor of Plaisance: Philippe Pastour de Costebelle

Events[]

Births[]

  • Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye born December 6 of this year. Already in ill health, he died while travelling from Fort Maurepas (Canada) on the Red River to Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods. He was buried near the junction of the Red and Roseau rivers (died 1736).[1]

Deaths[]

Historical documents[]

"Canada Survey'd, or the French Dominions upon the Continent of America briefly considered in their situation, strength, trade and number"[2]

Two descriptions of the capture of St. John's, Newfoundland by the French[3]

"This nott more than 3 minutes after ye first musquetts firing" - Fall of Fort William at St. John's to French, Canadian and Indigenous force[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Biography – DUFROST DE LA JEMERAIS, CHRISTOPHE – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
  2. ^ "Canada Survey'd, or the French Dominions upon the Continent of America briefly considered in their situation, strength, trade and number, more particularly how vastly prejudiciall they are to the British interest, and a method proposed of easily removing them" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 24, 1708-1709, pgs. 40-56. Accessed 7 October 2017
  3. ^ "528. Lord Dartmouth to the Council of Trade and Plantations: 528. iii. George Vane to Lord Dartmouth. Aug. 2, 1710; 528 iv. Extracts of letters from Mr. John Collins to his brother, Edwd. Collins, Minister of Wimbledon, Surrey. (a) St. Johns, July 16, 1709" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 25, 1710-1711. Accessed 7 October 2017
  4. ^ "190 i Narrative of the state of Fort William and the surprise thereof" (received April 20, 1710), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 25, 1710-1711. Accessed 4 February 2021


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