1748 in Canada

Events from the year 1748 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

Governors

• Governor General of New France: Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Charles Watson

Events

• Louisbourg is returned to France by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.
• Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island) and Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) to French.
• 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)

References