1749 in Canada

Events from the year 1749 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 then Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Edward Cornwallis
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: George Brydges Rodney

Events

• Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia, is founded by British General Edward Cornwallis to counter French presence at Louisbourg.
• La Vérendrye was awarded the cross of Saint Louis, in honour of his career.
• French agricultural settlement established in what would become Windsor, Ontario.

Births

Full date unknown

• Joel Stone, founder of Gananoque, Ontario (died 1833)

Deaths

• December 5 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer (born 1685).

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