1751 in Canada

This article lists information about events from the year 1751 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

Governors

• Governor General of New France: 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: Francis William Drake

Events

• Fort La Jonquière was established in 1751 by Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre on the Saskatchewan River (probably in the Nipawin, Sask. area).

Births

• Philip Turnor, HBC inland surveyor (died 1799)

References