1730 in Canada

Template:Year in Canada Template:History of Canada Events from the year 1730 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV<ref>Guéganic (2008), p. 13.</ref>
• British and Irish Monarch: George II<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Governors

• Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Étienne Perier
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Osborn

Events

• Seven Cherokee chiefs visit London and form an alliance, The Articles of Agreement, with King George II.
• 1730s: The Mississauga drive the Seneca Iroquois south of Lake Erie.

Deaths

• Antoine Laumet Cadillac, founder of Detroit.<ref>"Cadillac, Antoine Laumet" Template:Webarchive. The Canadian Encyclopedia.</ref>

Historical documents

• Jesuit's long report on Saguenay region, it's geography and Mistassini Cree, and Innu (Montagnais) near Tadoussac (Note: "savages" used)<ref>Letter of Pierre Laure (translation; March 13, 1730), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents; Vol. LXVIII; Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana, 1720-1736. Accessed 10 May 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_68.html (scroll down to "Page 23")</ref>
• New York governor seeks way to subsidize Oswego garrison and trade (key to Six Nations support) with tax acceptable to Assembly and Crown<ref>622 (xiii) Gov. Montgomerie to the Council of Trade and Plantations abstract (December 21, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 12 May 2021</ref>
• "That they might live and settle among them" - French and Meskwaki (Fox) in Seneca territory concern New York Indian commissioners<ref>622 i-ii(a and b) Indian Commissioners, Albany (November 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 12 May 2021</ref>
• N.Y. legislators on backfired past attempt to squeeze French out of Indigenous trade, and effect of current trouble from Oswego traders<ref>622 ii memorandum of N.Y. Council and Assembly members Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 12 May 2021</ref>
• French send "a thousand sail of ships annually" to fish off Newfoundland and had 220,000 quintals of cod for Marseille market in 1730<ref>Considerations on the State of the British Fisheries in America.... (1745), pg. 5. Accessed 7 May 2021</ref>
• Legal advice that Newfoundland justices' powers don't include judging property cases, and taxation must have consent of some popular assembly<ref>"196 Mr. Attorney General to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (April 27, 1730). 232 and 233 Tax for special project (like jail) is allowable. Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730 Accessed 10 May 2021</ref>
• "Hundreds of these poor creatures are beging [sic] up and down" - Servants' wages are withheld at end of fishing season, leaving them destitute<ref>422 Letter of Governor Osborn (September 8, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 12 May 2021</ref>
• Fishing admirals hold themselves superior to justices of the peace and Governor Osborn, whose authority is "only from the Privy Council"<ref>"422 ii Complaint of the Justices of the Peace at Placentia against the Fishing Admirals" (May 16, 1730), 454 and 455 Osborn's comments thereon (September 25, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 12 May 2021</ref>
• "So avers to all Government" - Fishing captains and traders won't support civil authority, even at tax rate of "one farthing in the pound"<ref>503 Letter of William Keen (October 27, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 12 May 2021</ref>
• Newfoundlanders ask protection from price gouging by "masters of shipps," and that their flax and hemp "be sent home freight free"<ref>"90 Petition of inhabitants of Newfoundland to the King" (October 30, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 19 May 2021</ref>
• History of 1720s fighting between Saint George River settlers and "French Indians" to keep former's land out of "the hands of the Indians"<ref>175 Petition referred by Privy Council to Trade Board (April 15, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 10 May 2021</ref>
• Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods told to, "by the most gentle usage," deter Penobscot from hindering settlement beyond Saint George River<ref>"215 Mr. Popple to Col. Dunbar" (May 7, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 12 May 2021</ref>
• In face of aggressiveness from Massachusetts, David Dunbar reaches out to Penobscot and their Canada-educated, mixed-race comrade<ref>533 Letter of Lt. Gov. Dunbar (November 17, 1730; also see Nov. 18 note in this letter on visit from Penobscot), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 12 May 2021</ref>
• Gov. Belcher objects to Dunbar's settlements between Sagadahoc (Kennebec) River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, which Massachusetts claims<ref>"13 i Memorial of Governor Belcher to the King" (May 15, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1730. Accessed 19 May 2021</ref>
• Nova Scotia governor offers Dunbar his limited advice on Penobscot (Note: "animals" and "savages" used)<ref>"563 ii Governor Philipps to Col. Dunbar" (November 9, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 10 May 2021</ref>
• Dunbar relates complaints of Minas region merchants required to discount wares they supply to Annapolis Royal garrison<ref>533 Letter of Lt. Gov. Dunbar (November 17, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 12 May 2021 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol37/pp340-357 (scroll down letter to "It is now the 30th of November")</ref>
• Sure that his own settlements will take years to actualize, Gov. Philipps envies way new "Province of Maine" governor attracts settlers<ref>"3 Governor Philipps to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (January 3, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 10 May 2021</ref>
• David Dunbar criticized for settlement names like "Province of Georgia" (it's Nova Scotia land) and "Fredericksburg" (which isn't English)<ref>"215 Mr. Popple to Col. Dunbar" (May 7, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 11 May 2021</ref>
• Fidelity oath (in French) signed by Annapolis Acadians, plus their address welcoming governor's written assurance of religious rights<ref>3 i and 3 ii (oath in French; received April 25, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 10 May 2021</ref>
• 1755 Acadian petition includes 1730 fidelity oath (in English) and testimony that Gov. Philipps promised them neutrality at that time<ref>"I yesterday recd a Memorial" Nova Scotia Historical Society; Journal of Colonel John Winslow, pgs. 111-112. Accessed 7 May 2021</ref>
• With brief French lesson, Trade Board says oath given to Annapolis Acadians doesn't actually require their fidelity to His Majesty<ref>Mr. Secretary Popple to Govr. Philipps (May 20, 1730), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 84-5. Gov. Philipps' reply pgs. 87-8. Accessed 7 May 2021</ref>
• "Good management, plain reasoning and presents" - Philipps reports that Indigenous and French have submitted to British governance<ref>Govr. Philipps to the Duke of Newcastle (excerpt; September 2, 1730), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 86-7. Accessed 7 May 2021</ref>
• Oath of allegiance signed by 591 of "the French inhabitants of Nova Scotia"<ref>"411 iii Oath of allegiance to King George" (enclosed in September 2, 1730 letter), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 11 May 2021</ref>
• Philipps again appeals for adequate defence of Canso, pointing out its £30-40,000 value in duties and its 6–7 hours march from French forces<ref>"411 Governor Philipps to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (September 2, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 11 May 2021</ref>
• Philipps told issuing settler-requested £2,000 in paper money impossible "till you shall have an Assembly," and then with "very great caution"<ref>246 Trade Board to Philipps (May 20, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 11 May 2021</ref>
• David Dunbar worried about working in Nova Scotia, where people are afraid to travel and "are even insulted in their garrisons"<ref>45 Letter of David Dunbar (February 3, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 10 May 2021</ref>
• Philipps to assist in settling Irish and Palatines in defensible townships between Penobscot and St. Croix rivers (Note: "savage" used)<ref>"197 H.M. Additional Instructions to Governor Phillips (sic)" (April 27, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 10 May 2021</ref>
• Fine and prison sentence set for "wild fellows who catch the horses in the fields and race them to the great detriment of the beasts"<ref>Order Against Riding Horses (May 2, 1730), Nova Scotia Archives; Commission Book, 1720-1741, pgs. 199-200. Accessed 7 May 1730</ref>
• Hudson's Bay Company employee reports on wild rice, good grass for hay, and thriving fruit trees (!) in Moose River country<ref>Arthur Dobbs, An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay.... (1745), pgs. 45-6. Accessed 7 May 2021</ref>
• Governors instructed not to seize whale products or discourage that fishery but "to encourage the same to the utmost of their power"<ref>"72 Order of King in Council" (February 21, 1730), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 37, 1730. Accessed 10 May 2021</ref>