1744 in Canada
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Events from the year 1744 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Governors
Events
- May 3 â News of the declaration of war by France on Great Britain arrives in New France, starting King George's War.[3]
- The Treaty of Lancaster between Great Britain and the Iroquois occurs.
- Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles de Fleurimont succeeded Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye as the Commandant of the western French forts.
Births
- May 22 - Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, naval officer, explorer, administrator (d.1794)
- October 6 - James McGill, merchant, philanthropist (d.1813)
- December 10 - William Berczy, painter, architect, author, and colonizer (d.1813)
Full date unknown
- Elias Hardy, lawyer and office-holder (d.1798)