1748 in Canada
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Events from the year 1748 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Governors
Events
- Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Ile Royale, (Cape Breton Island) Ile Saint-Jean, (Prince Edward Island) and Louisbourg to France.[5]
- Treaty of Logstown (English with Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot). English later base their claim to the whole Great Lakes and midwest (or Old Northwest as it was later called) on these two treaties.
Births
- June 14: Henry Allen, evangelist, hymnist, theologian (d.1784)
Full date unknown
- James Henry Craig, officer, colonial administrator (d.1812)
Deaths
- August 12: Jean Jeantot, Canadian Catholic brother and schoolmaster (born c. 1666)[6]
Full date unknown
- Agathe de Repentigny, pioneering businesswoman in New France. (born c. 1657)[7]