1742 in Canada

Events from the year 1742 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: Paul Mascarene
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley

Events

• First scientific report on the North Pacific fur seal.
• First Fort Paskoya built by La Vérendrye at Cedar Lake.

Births

• Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, naval officer (died 1798)
• Benjamin Frobisher, fur-trader (died 1787)

References