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Events from the year 1743 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville then Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas Smith

Events

  • Concentrated hunting of sea otter by Russia begins.
  • Father Claude-Godefroy Coquart joins La Vérendrye at Fort La Reine becoming the first recorded missionary in present-day Manitoba and the first to travel beyond Lake of the Woods.

Deaths

  • April 11 - Jean-Baptiste Chardon, jesuit missionary (born 1672).

References