Events from the year 1732 in Canada .
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Frenchman says
Louisbourg inhabitants mostly fish cod and do little farming because they get "all Necessaries in Exchange for their Fish"
[4]
Board of Trade wants
Nova Scotia governor to forward old French documents concerning
Acadia that he has or can obtain
[5]
Nova Scotia lieutenant governor calls for creation of assembly, "for without some statutes this Province can never be rightly setled"
[6]
Democratic reforms to include election and fiscal support of
Acadian deputies by divisions of "familys" (rather than Nova Scotia governor)
[7]
Repairs needed to
Annapolis Royal fort involve foundations,
barracks ,
ramparts , riverside
bastion ,
glacis and
palisade
[8]
Councillor
Mascarene to deal with Massachusetts government in ways that don't make Nova Scotia "in the least Subordinate" to it
[9]
Canso sees mostly New England and Nova Scotia fishers sailing
sloops and
schooners , and English ships bringing food and lading fish
[10]
Foreign markets are getting fish of lower quality because Canso shoremen don't
cure fish well and ship
masters accept half-cured fish
[11]
Three Canso
justices of the peace and 77 merchants complain that local military damage fishery and obstruct authority
[12]
Board of Trade "wishes" any justices of the peace for French areas of Nova Scotia be Englishmen, as all JPs must take "the
regular oaths "
[13]
Nova Scotia Council rejects
Bishop of Quebec 's jurisdiction over province and banishes priest who implemented it
[14]
Île-Royale governor St. Ovide writes Lt. Gov. Armstrong to introduce two missionaries "whom you ask for and the Bishop of Quebec has sent"
[15]
Lt. Gov. Armstrong surveys multiple French threat in
Minas and
Chignecto ,
Louisbourg , "
Cape Gaspy " and "
Island of St. John "
[16]
Armstrong refuses to let Catholic church in
Annapolis Royal move back
upriver , as massacre "by the Indians" led to move to A.R.
[17]
Île-Royale has great fishery ("no less than 7,000 fishermen") and
Louisbourg fortifications (including 122 great guns over harbour)
[18]
Six French warships (one with 60 guns) at Louisbourg "are gone to carry Jews to settle the Island of St John's in the
Gut of Canso "
[19]
Armstrong writes
Massachusetts governor about French sway over "most powerful" Indigenous people in Nova Scotia, asking for his help
[20]
Armstrong reminded to grant land to settlers in tandem with
Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods reserving forest acreage for
naval use
[21]
Request for grant of land along
Minas Channel in today's
Cumberland County, N.S. to settle 200 Protestants over 10 years,
rent -free
[22]
Nova Scotia Council settles land dispute by applying French custom giving family members
first right of refusal in land sale
[23]
Nova Scotia challenged by Indigenous people who say
British conquered Annapolis only and that rent is due from Chignecto colliery
[24]
From Maine,
David Dunbar reports Indigenous people complain of not receiving presents and that he has asked Armstrong for reinforcements
[25]
Dunbar details French impact in Maine, including Canadian settlement and
Governor General Beauharnois commissioning
Penobscot chief
[26]
Privy Council orders Dunbar to "quitt the possession" of land between
Penobscot and
St. Croix rivers and end settlement effort
[27]
Amendment to
fishing admiral act needed to allow
Newfoundland governor to curb abuses, including conflict of interest, fraud and robbery
[28]
Newfoundlanders "generally subsist on salt provisions" from Ireland and American bread, flour, and cattle (plus few of their own breed)
[29]
Fogo ,
Twillingate ,
Bonavista , and
Trinity Bay people take seals in nets — and furriers have "distroyed Indians" and vice versa
[30]
"Five
flakes are generally esteemed a boat's room, extending from the sea backward 230 ft.;" registering them would prevent disputes
[31]
"A due subjection" to Commission of the Peace "has not been had" and several in places without prisons "dispise"
justices' authority
[32]
Poole, England wants same duty-free status for Newfoundland whale products that is given to such from
Davis Strait and region
[33]
Massachusetts governor Belcher mentions "
French Mohawks " visiting him with "their Motion of coming to settle in this Province"
[34]
Fort built at Crown Point by French among "artful and illicit means" they have used to encroach on New York's trade and security
[35]
French to
Shawnee : "The french, ye English, ye
five nations , ye
Delawares and you[...]are all now In peace and unity Like Brothers"
[36]
Convicted of
murdering her newborn , woman in
Quebec City is sentenced to public penance and hanging, with her body "disposed of as refuse"
[37]
References
^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
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"George I" . Official web site of the British monarchy . 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016 .
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"Auger de Subercase, Daniel d'"
Archived 2016-03-04 at the
Wayback Machine . The Canadian Encyclopedia.
^ Marquis De La Maison Fort,
Excerpt from his 1732 journal (French text and translation), An Accurate Journal and Account[....] (1746), pgs. 31-2. Accessed 27 May 2021
^
313 Letter to Governor Philipps (Whitehall, July 20, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732.
326 Gov. Philipps' reply Accessed 31 May 2021
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"259 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (June 10, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 28 May 2021
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"Order for Choosing New Deputies" (August 26, 1732), Nova Scotia Archives; Commission Book, 1720-1741, pg. 190. Accessed 27 May 2021
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"468 ii Report by the Officers of the Garrison at Annapolis Royal" (November 21, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 2 June 2021
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"Instructions to Mascarene" (September 11, 1732), Nova Scotia Archives; Commission Book, 1720-1741, pgs. 191-2. Accessed 27 May 2021
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497 i (iii, vi, x) "Answers to Heads of Enquiry relating to the Fishery at Canso" (October 1, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 2 June 2021
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497 i (xvi) "Answers to Heads of Enquiry relating to the Fishery at Canso" (October 1, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 2 June 2021
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496 i, ii Memorials of Canso justices and merchants (received December 21, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 2 June 2021
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"Board of Trade to Armstrong" (November 2, 1732), Nova Scotia Archives; Commission Book, 1720-1741, pg. 194. Accessed 27 May 2021
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"Preist De Godalie's letters read and he ordered to Depart out of the Province" (June 19, 1732), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 225-6. Accessed 28 May 2021
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454 i Letter of Gov. St Ovide de Brouillan (translation; Louisbourg, September 19 (N.S.), 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 1 June 2021
^
454, 455 Letters of Lawrence Armstrong (November 15, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 1 June 2021
^ Letter of December 13, 1732, cited in
"164 ii (iv) Copies of letters from Lt. Governor Armstrong" (May 10, 1734), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 5 July 2021
^
497 i (xvii) "Answers to Heads of Enquiry relating to the Fishery at Canso" (October 1, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 2 June 2021
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"Extract of Letter from Capt. Fitche, Commander of His Majesty's Ship Sheerness...dated at Canso, July 19, 1732" The New-York Gazette (August 21-8, 1732), image 2. Accessed 2 June 2021
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455 ii (vii) Letter of Lawrence Armstrong to Gov. Belcher (September 11, 1732),
455 v Belcher's reply Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 1 June 2021
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435 Letter to Lawrence Armstrong (November 2, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 1 June 2021
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"323 i Petition of John Hart to the Queen" (July 25, 1732),
500 Privy Council approves request Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 31 May 2021
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"Hebert and Robicheau's Petitions" (July 20, 1732), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 237-8. Accessed 28 May 2021
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"Govr. Armstrong to Duke of Newcastle" (November 15, 1732), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pg. 101. Accessed 28 May 2021
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294 Letter of Lt. Governor Dunbar (Fredericks Fort, July 9, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 31 May 2021
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359 Letter of Col. Dunbar (August 25, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 31 May 2021
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"At the Court of Kensington, the 10th Day of August, 1732" The New-York Gazette (January 16–23, 1732 [sic]), pgs. 1-2. Also at
"346 Order of Queen, Guardian of the Kingdom, in Council" (August 10, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 31 May 2021
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148 Letter of George Clinton (received March 30, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 28 May 2021
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404 i (xxxii) Governor Falkingham's Answers to Heads of Enquiry and Instructions (October 4, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 1 June 2021
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404 i (xxxvii) Governor Falkingham's Answers to Heads of Enquiry and Instructions (October 4, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 1 June 2021
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404 i (xli-xlii) Governor Falkingham's Answers to Heads of Enquiry and Instructions (October 4, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 1 June 2021
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404 i (lxv) Governor Falkingham's Answers to Heads of Enquiry and Instructions (October 4, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 1 June 2021
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400 Petition of the mayor and 20 others of Poole (October 1, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 1 June 2021
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"The Cagnawagas..." The New-York Gazette (December 11–18, 1732), image 3. Accessed 2 June 2021
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160 i Council of Trade and Plantations to the King (April 6, 1732), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 39, 1732. Accessed 28 May 2021 (See
recollection of fort in 1730s )
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"The Speech of ye french to the Shawanise att ohioh" (May 2, 1732), Western Frontier collection, Library and Archives Canada. Accessed 3 June 2021
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Sentence rendered against Marie-Anne Sigouin found guilty of infanticide (translation; May 7, 1732), Jugements et délibérations du Conseil supérieur, Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 11 June 2021
1732 in North America
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