1735 in Canada

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Year in Canada Template:History of Canada Events from the year 1735 in Canada.

IncumbentsEdit

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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GovernorsEdit

EventsEdit

Catholic priest Jean-Pierre Aulneau went to Fort St. Charles with Pierre La Vérendrye as a missionary.

BirthsEdit

Full date unknownEdit

Alexander McKee, agent for the Indian Department (died 1799)

DeathsEdit

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Historical documentsEdit

Hudson's Bay Company charter allows it to impose its sovereignty (including making war) in lands "not possess'd by any Christian Power"<ref>Arthur Dobbs, Remarks upon Capt. Middleton's Defence (1744), pg. 6. Accessed 2 July 2021</ref>
HBC employee describes Indigenous people's divination, and how his boss turned to them in 1735 when ship from England was overdue<ref>"An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay" (1752), pg. 49. Accessed 12 July 2021</ref>
Long description of activities and Christian customs of Haudenosaunee at Kahnawake (Note: racial stereotypes)<ref>Letter of Father L.F. Nau (translation; October 2, 1735), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents[...]; Vol. LXVIII.; Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736. Accessed 13 July 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_68.html (scroll down to Page 259)</ref>
Pierre de la Vérendrye informs Gov. Beauharnois that Fort Maurepas on Red River near Lake Winnipeg has been built<ref>"La Vérendrye to Beauharnois" (original and translation; June 7, 1735), Journals and Letters of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de la Vérendrye and His Sons (1927), pgs. 197-8. Accessed 23 August 2021</ref>
Jesuit missionary afraid to go 3,600 miles to live alone with uncontacted Indigenous people "who dwell in holes" (Note: "savages" used)<ref>Letter of Father J.P. Aulneau (translation; April 25, 1735), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents[...]; Vol. LXVIII.; Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736. Accessed 13 July 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_68.html (scroll down to Page 235, and to Page 247 for more details)</ref>
Panis subject to enslavement in Canada by common practice, not formal law, and can be granted freedom (Note: "savages" used)<ref>Letter of King to Beauharnois and Hocquart (translation; April 11, 1735), France Archives nationales. Accessed 12 July 2021</ref>
Intendant Gilles Hocquart reports two executions, for abduction and violence against six-year-old and for enslaved man's domestic thievery<ref>Letter of Gilles Hocquart (translation; October 1, 1735), France Archives nationales. Accessed 12 July 2021</ref>
Master carpenter to be paid for major job in Montreal with merchandise, four bottles of eau de vie, 30 bushels of wheat and cash<ref>"Agreement between François Soumande Delorme and Pierre Labier" (translation; February 2, 1735), Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 12 July 2021</ref>
Brief details of defences and fishing fleets of Louisbourg and other French settlements in region<ref>"504 Capt. Cotterell to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 15, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021</ref>
Fishers working banks near Canso may have single sloop or schooner catching 400-500 quintals or send out six to twelve boats or more<ref>"504 (ix) Capt. Cotterell to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 15, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021</ref>
Previous complaints about poorly cured Canso fish arise because ships load fish before salt curing process is complete<ref>"504 (xv, xvii) Capt. Cotterell to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 15, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021</ref>
Nova Scotia lieutenant governor Armstrong again repeats his requests for increased strength against subject Acadians and nearby French<ref>"195 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (December 8, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 14 July 2021</ref>
Detailed reasons for settling Nova Scotia with numerous Protestants to protect northern limit of continental colonies against French<ref>"592 1 Reasons for peopling of Nova Scotia" (June 10, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 14 July 2021</ref>
Detailed proposal for establishing settlers and civil government in Nova Scotia through trusteeship of "honble. and experienced persons"<ref>"22 Capt. Coram to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (July 11, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 14 July 2021</ref>
Petition for poor London craftsmen to be settled in Nova Scotia with civil government (tied to petition for salt works in Bahamas)<ref>"546 Order of Committee of Privy Council" (May 1, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021</ref>
Armstrong visits Minas and finds locals submissive "only from policy" while "inciting the Indians [—] those poor ignorant wretches"<ref>"Extract from a Letter of Govr. Armstrong to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle" (December 8, 1735), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 102-3. Accessed 12 July 2021</ref>
"Stocks are Impaired & greatly deminished by such pernicious proceedings" - exporting cattle prohibited except through Annapolis Royal or Canso<ref>"Order to Prevent Exportation of Cattle" (April 2, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Commission Book, 1720-1741, pgs. 204-5. Accessed 12 July 2021</ref>
Acadian deputies can't, as Catholics, execute Council orders, which it fixes by having them made constables "in their own privite affairs"<ref>"The Deputys Complaining" (April 28, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 322. Accessed 12 July 2021</ref>
Council committee sets cordwood price after Armstrong declares overcharging French are entitled only to wood they personally need<ref>"The price of Cordwood again Recommended to the Consideration of the Board" (February 3, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 312-13. Accessed 12 July 2021</ref>
"Some people here tell stories of Indians have been seen some years ago[...]nor did I see one person in Newfoundland had ever seen an Indian"<ref>"119 i 38 "Capt. Lee's replies to Heads of Enquiries" (September 29, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 14 July 2021</ref>
"This day was laid the first Stone of the Fortification here [in Schenectady, New York] under the discharge of the great Guns"<ref>"Schenectady, in the County of Albany, April 25" New-York Gazette (June 9, 1735), image 3. Accessed 15 July 2021</ref>
New York governor Cosby "laid hold of the people's apprehensions" to convince them money had to be spent on defence, no matter their "poverty"<ref>"591 14 Governor Cosby to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (June 10, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 14 July 2021</ref>
Board of Trade suggests to Privy Council that Massachusetts pay for defences of Pemaquid, which has only eastern fort to check French<ref>"554 Council of Trade and Plantations to the Committee of the Privy Council" (May 7, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021</ref>
Gov. Belcher reports success in peace talks with "Cagnawagas," and suggests outlawing private trading to end cheating done to "Eastern Indians"<ref>"The Speech of his Excellency Jonathan Belcher(...)to the General Assembly (on) November 19, 1735" New-York Gazette (December 1, 1735), image 1. Accessed 15 July 1735</ref>

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