Events from the year 1749 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière then Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Edward Cornwallis
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: George Brydges Rodney

Events

  • Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia, is founded by British General Edward Cornwallis to counter French presence at Louisbourg.
  • La Vérendrye was awarded the cross of Saint Louis, in honour of his career.
  • French agricultural settlement established in what would become Windsor, Ontario.

Births

Full date unknown

  • Joel Stone, founder of Gananoque, Ontario (died 1833)

Deaths

  • December 5 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer (born 1685).

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