1702 in Canada
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Events from the year 1702 in Canada.
IncumbentsEdit
- French Monarch: Louis XIV<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- English, Scottish and Irish Monarch: William III (until March 8),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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GovernorsEdit
- Governor General of New France: Louis-Hector de Callière<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Governor of Acadia: Claude-Sébastien de Villieu then Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Sauvolle then Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Governor of Plaisance: Joseph de Monic<ref name=":0" />
EventsEdit
- Having begun in Europe in 1701, the War of the Spanish Succession spreads to North America (Queen Anne's War) in Acadia and New England.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1702-13: The short-lived Peace of Ryswick collapses with the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, which erupts in the colonies as Queen Anne's War. It ends with France losing North American territory to Britain.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- 1702-13: Queen Anne's War—Maine Abenakis and Iroquois from Quebec (Caughnawaga) attack the English colonists on behalf of the French, but lose. The European nations negotiate their settlement at the Treaty of Utrecht (1713); Louis XIV cedes Hudson Bay, Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland (but not Cape Breton Island or St. John's Island) to Great Britain.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
DeathsEdit
- September 20 - Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, businessman (born 1632)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Historical documentsEdit
In several weeks of talks, Indigenous leaders and New York governor discuss alliance, trade, peace, war and French influence<ref>1009 ii (a)-(r); Conferences held at Albany with Governor Lord Cornbury (July 9–28 and August 9–19, 1702), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 20, 1702. Accessed 11 February 2021</ref>
"All the glory of it" - Cadillac describes rich region and progress of his promising new settlement, Detroit (Note: racial stereotypes)<ref>Letter of Sieur de Cadillac (September 25, 1702). Accessed 11 February 2021</ref>
New York official suggests missionary society send ministers to Five Nations because Jesuits have drawn so many to Montreal area<ref>Memorial of Robert Livingston to Society An Account of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts[...] (1706), pgs. 43-4. Accessed 16 February 2021</ref>
As England, France, and Spain go to war, this medical guide to amputation is timely<ref>M. de La Vauguion, M.D., "Chap. XXVII; Of Amputation; The Operation" A Compleat Body of Chirurgical Operations[...], The Second Edition (translation; London, 1702), pgs. 291-3. Accessed 17 February 2021</ref>
This guide to letter-writing offers timely example of letter from wounded man to his love, and her reply<ref>"From a lover, after receiving wounds in battle, to his mistress" The Art of Correspondence; In French and English; Second Edition; Volume the Second (Paris, 1702), pgs. 61, 63. Accessed 17 February 2021</ref>
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