Editing 1702 in Canada

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{{Year in Canada|1702}}
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Events from the year '''1702 in Canada'''.

==Incumbents==
*[[List of Canadian monarchs|French Monarch]]: [[Louis XIV]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715): An Overview {{!}} University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences |url=https://history.as.uky.edu/reign-louis-xiv-1643-1715-overview |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=history.as.uky.edu}}</ref>
*[[List of Canadian monarchs|English, Scottish and Irish Monarch]]: [[William III of England|William III]] (until March 8),<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-06-15 |title=The Revolution in Scotland :: Act of Union 1707 |url=http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/01_03_revolution.html |access-date=2023-02-07 |archive-date=2008-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615023245/http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/01_03_revolution.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Anne]] (starting March 8)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Emson |first=H. E. |date=1992 |title=For The Want Of An Heir: The Obstetrical History Of Queen Anne |journal=BMJ: British Medical Journal |volume=304 |issue=6838 |pages=1365–1366 |doi=10.1136/bmj.304.6838.1365 |jstor=29715689 |pmid=1463487 |pmc=1882031 |issn=0959-8138}}</ref>

===Governors===
*[[Governor General of the Province of Canada|Governor General of New France]]: [[Louis-Hector de Callière]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=People - Louis Hector de Calliere |url=http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/popups/people.do?shortName=Calliere |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=www.1704.deerfield.history.museum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography – CALLIÈRE, LOUIS-HECTOR DE – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/calliere_louis_hector_de_2E.html |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=www.biographi.ca}}</ref>
*[[Governor of Acadia]]: [[Claude-Sébastien de Villieu]] then [[Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography – MONBETON DE BROUILLAN, JACQUES-FRANÇOIS DE – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/monbeton_de_brouillan_jacques_francois_de_2E.html |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=www.biographi.ca}}</ref>
*[[List of colonial governors of Louisiana|Colonial Governor of Louisiana]]: [[Sauvolle]] then [[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Government House Table of Contents |url=https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/government-house-table-contents.php |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=www.heritage.nf.ca}}</ref>
*[[Colonial Governor of Newfoundland|Governor of Plaisance]]: [[Joseph de Monic]]<ref name=":0" />

==Events==
* 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>{{Cite web |title=War of the Spanish Succession {{!}} Causes, Definition, Combatants, Battles, & Outcome {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/War-of-the-Spanish-Succession |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The War of the Spanish Succession {{!}} First World War of Modern Times |url=https://www.royalhampshireregiment.org/about-the-museum/timeline/war-spanish-succession/ |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* 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">{{Cite web |title=Queen Anne's War {{!}} North American history {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Queen-Annes-War |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=The Colonial Wars (1689-1763) - Lewis & Clark Online Exhibit - State Historical Society of North Dakota |url=https://www.history.nd.gov/exhibits/lewisclark/colonialwars.html |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=www.history.nd.gov}}</ref>
* 1702-13: Queen Anne's War—[[Maine]] [[Abenaki people|Abenaki]]s 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 of France|Louis XIV]] cedes [[Hudson Bay]], Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland (but not [[Cape Breton Island]] or [[Prince Edward Island|St. John's Island]]) to [[Great Britain]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

==Deaths==
* September 20 - [[Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye]], businessman (born 1632)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography – AUBERT DE LA CHESNAYE, CHARLES – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/aubert_de_la_chesnaye_charles_2F.html |access-date=2023-02-07 |website=www.biographi.ca}}</ref>

==Historical documents==
In several weeks of talks, Indigenous leaders and [[Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon|New York governor]] discuss alliance, trade, peace, war and French influence<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol20/pp611-648 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" - [[Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac|Cadillac]] describes [[Lake Huron#History|rich region]] and progress of his promising new settlement, [[Fort Detroit|Detroit]] (Note: [[Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States|racial stereotypes]])<ref>[https://www.cmich.edu/library/clarke/ResearchResources/Michigan_Material_Local/Detroit_Pre_statehood_Descriptions/Entries_by_Date/Pages/1702-Antoine-Laumet-De-Lemothe-Cadillac.aspx Letter of Sieur de Cadillac] (September 25, 1702). Accessed 11 February 2021</ref>

[[Robert Livingston the Elder#Career|New York official]] suggests [[United Society Partners in the Gospel#History|missionary society]] send ministers to [[Iroquois#Iroquois Confederacy|Five Nations]] because [[Jesuit missions in North America#New France|Jesuits]] have drawn so many to [[Kahnawake#Location|Montreal area]]<ref>[https://archive.org/details/cihm_52937/page/n49/mode/2up 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., [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5329041911&view=1up&seq=319 "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 (message)|letter]] from [[Casualty (person)|wounded man]] to his love, and her reply<ref>[https://archive.org/details/artofcorresponde02pariuoft/page/60/mode/2up "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>

==See also==
*[[List of years in Canada]]

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