1709 in Canada

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Events from the year 1709 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[]

  • In New France, slavery becomes legal.

Getivagen attacks Canada.

Births[]

  • September 7 (O.S. September 18 - Dr. Samuel Johnson born in Lichfield, Staffordshire. (died 1784)
  • September 26 - Jean-Louis Le Loutre, priest, Spiritan, and missionary (died 1772)

Deaths[]

Historical documents[]

Intendant's ordinance proclaims Panis and Blacks who have been purchased are property to be known as slaves (Note: "savages" used)[1]

"Inhabitants remaining[...]are in a very bad condition" - Report to Queen Anne of aftermath of French attack on St. John's, Newfoundland[2]

"Rotten and decay'd" - Indigenous spies sent by New York government report Canadian fortifications (except at Quebec City) are poor[3]

"So great a plague to all Plantations in America" - New Englanders eager to attack Port Royal and its "nest of spoilers and robbers"[4]

Inhabitants of Buoys Island (off Ferryland, Newfoundland) get evacuation offer but stay to meet possible third French attack[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Jacques Raudot, "Ordinance relative to slavery in Canada" (translation; April 13, 1709), Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 19 July 2021
  2. ^ "139 Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen" (February 23, 1710). Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 25, 1710-1711. Accessed 4 February 2021
  3. ^ 621iv a) and b); Reports of spies returned from Canada (1709). Accessed 28 January 2021
  4. ^ 794; Letter of Governor Dudley et al. (Boston, October 24, 1709), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 24, 1708-1709. Accessed 28 January 2021
  5. ^ Richard Amiss and 38 others, Petition to Governor Joseph Dudley of Massachusetts (May 1709). Accessed 28 January 2021


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