1752 in Canada
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Events from the year 1752 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Governors
- Governor General of New France: Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière then Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville
- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
- Governor of Nova Scotia: Edward Cornwallis
- Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Francis William Drake
Events
- 23 March â Canada's first newspaper, the weekly Halifax Gazette, is published.[3]
- French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts from Lake Erie to the forks of the Ohio River.[citation needed]
- La Corne began a three-year appointment as the western commander of the poste de l'Ouest.[citation needed]
- The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar.
Births
- 25 February â John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d.1806)
Deaths
- Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, governor general of New France, on 17 March (born 1685)