1743 in Canada
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Events from the year 1743 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Governors
Events
- Concentrated hunting of sea otter by Russia begins.
- Father Claude-Godefroy Coquart joins La Vérendrye at Fort La Reine becoming the first recorded missionary in present-day Manitoba and the first to travel beyond Lake of the Woods.
Deaths
- April 11 - Jean-Baptiste Chardon, jesuit missionary (born 1672).