1737 in Canada

Events from the year 1737 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV
• British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors

• Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

Events

• Marguerite d'Youville (Born Varennes, France October 15, 1701 Died December 28, 1771) and some friends in Montreal, begin taking in the poor and educating abandoned children.

Births

Full date unknown

• Matonabbee, leading Indian (d.1782)

Deaths

• 29 September - Joseph Adams, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. (b. 1700)

References