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Events from the year 1751 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • French Monarch: Louis XV
  • British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors[]

Events[]

  • Fort Le Jonquiere was established in 1751 by Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre on the Saskatchewan River (probably in the Nipawin, Sask. area).

Births[]

  • Philip Turnor, HBC inland surveyor (died 1799)

Deaths[]


Historical documents[]

"Good harmony [seems to be] thoroughly re-established between them" - Quiet times between French and British on Chignecto Isthmus in 1751-5 [1]

Sieur de Saint-Ours twice rescues British ship crews threatened by Indigenous people, and is thanked (Note: "savages" used)[2]

"Several acts of violence committed by the English" is France's complaint about British naval attacks off Nova Scotia[3]

"We are extreamly glad to hear that so few of the better sort [have left]" - Edward Cornwallis right to stop Acadians from leaving Nova Scotia[4]

Description of Acadian salt marsh farming includes its extent (for miles) and fertilization (Note: anti-Catholic comment)[5]

Agreement between superior of Huron mission at Detroit and its new farmer sets out latter's duties and share of farm produce[6]

French pursue westward expansion, strengthening Fort Niagara and sending settlers to Detroit and western Lake Erie[7]

Map: North America, showing Canada and Louisiana[8]

Massachusetts lieutenant governor informs legislature of New York governor's call to meet with Six Nations in Albany in June[9]

Benjamin Franklin says "securing the Friendship of the Indians is of the greatest Consequence to these Colonies" (Note: "savages" used)[10]

Connecticut will attend Albany conference to shore up Six Nations' loyalty and block French attempts to "render [it] precarious"[11]

British must act on opportunity to counter French policy to draw Six Nations and other Indigenous peoples to them[12]

Though expensive for France to maintain, Canada should be kept to thwart "the ambition of the English" in America[13]

"Deserve our approbation" - Mi'kmaq gratify French to same degree they earn writer's condemnation for "perfidy and cruelty" (Note: "savage" used)[14]

Quebec governor insists Haudenosaunee are in control of their lands, but New York governor lists reasons why British own them[15]

References[]

  1. ^ "Whether it was owing" The Mystery Reveal'd, or, Truth Brought to Light (1759), pg. 13. Accessed 13 December 2021
  2. ^ "The 15th of February 1751" in Letter XVIII, Genuine Letters and Memoirs, Relating to the[...]History of the Islands of Cape Breton, and Saint John; By an impartial Frenchman (translation; 1760), pgs. 272-4. Accessed 15 December 2021
  3. ^ "Number III" (January 5, 1751), The Mystery Reveal'd, or, Truth Brought to Light (1759), pgs. 66-73. Accessed 13 December 2021
  4. ^ "Extract from a Letter of the Lords of Trade to Governor Cornwallis" (March 22, 1751), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pg. 196. Accessed 15 December 2021
  5. ^ "The method by which the French inhabitants improve their lands" The Importance of Settling and Fortifying Nova Scotia (1751), pgs. 10-13. Accessed 14 December 2021
  6. ^ "Janis took the farm" (July 25, 1751), Father De La Richardie's Book of Accounts, The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents; Vol. LXX. Accessed 15 December 1751 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_70.html (scroll down to Page 67)
  7. ^ "This they first attempted" The Contest in America between Great Britain and France (1757), pg. 80. Accessed 15 December 2021
  8. ^ Eman T. Bowen, "North America, Laid Down from the Best Modern Maps, 1751" McCord Museum. Accessed 15 December 2021
  9. ^ Speech of Lieutenant Governor (January 16, 1751), Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; v.27, 1750-1751, pg. 102. Accessed 16 December 2021
  10. ^ Letter of Benjamin Franklin (March 20, 1751), U.S. National Archives. Accessed 16 December 2021
  11. ^ Connecticut General Assembly, "Act Appointing Commissioners to Albany" (May 1751), New England Indian Papers Series, Yale Library. (See instructions to commissioners) Accessed 16 December 2021
  12. ^ "The other Letter" (dated August 31, 1751), French Policy Defeated (1760), pgs. 27-8. Accessed 15 December 2021
  13. ^ M. le Marquis de la Galissonniere, "Memoir: On the Colonies of France in North America; Article 2; Of the Importance and the Necessity of Preserving Canada and Louisiana" (translation; 1751), in Anglo-French Boundary Disputes in the West, 1749-1763, French Series, Volume II, Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume XXVII (1936), pgs. 0007-11. Accessed 1 March 2021
  14. ^ "Memorial furnished by the French ministry in April, 1751" (translated excerpt), "Preface," An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets[....] (1758), pgs. i-iii. Accessed 5 January 2022
  15. ^ "Marquis de la Jonquière to Governor Clinton" (August 10, 1751; translation) and "Governor Clinton's Notes on the Governor of Canada's Letter," Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, pgs. 731-2, 735-6. Accessed 14 December 2020
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