Events from the year 1752 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 then Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville
  • 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

  • 23 March – Canada's first newspaper, the weekly Halifax Gazette, is published.
  • French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts from Lake Erie to the forks of the Ohio River.
  • La Corne began a three-year appointment as the western commander of the poste de l'Ouest.
  • The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar.

Births

  • 25 February – John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d.1806)

Deaths

  • Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, governor general of New France, on 17 March (born 1685)

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