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Events from the year 1750 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: 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: Francis William Drake

Events

  • 1750s: Hudson's Bay Company Saskatchewan River region, reached by trade drummers sent out with goods to tempt the Indians to York.
  • c. 1750: The Ojibwa begin to emerge as a distinct tribal amalgamation of smaller independent bands.
  • German immigrants begin to arrive in numbers at Halifax.
  • Hidatsa villages, site of ancient trading fair, now with both French and Hudson's Bay representatives present each summer.

Births

  • James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician (d.1817)
  • Simon McTavish, fur trader and dealer in furs, militia officer, office holder, landowner, seigneur, and businessman (d.1804)

Deaths

  • October 14: Richard Philipps, military officer, governor of Nova Scotia (b.1661)

References