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Events from the year 1735 in Canada.

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  • Hudson's Bay Company charter allows it to impose its sovereignty (including making war) in lands "not possess'd by any Christian Power" [3]
  • HBC employee describes Indigenous people's divination, and how his boss turned to them in 1735 when ship from England was overdue [4]
  • Long description of activities and Christian customs of Haudenosaunee at Kahnawake (Note: racial stereotypes) [5]
  • Pierre de la Vérendrye informs Gov. Beauharnois that Fort Maurepas on Red River near Lake Winnipeg has been built [6]
  • Jesuit missionary afraid to go 3,600 miles to live alone with uncontacted Indigenous people "who dwell in holes" (Note: "savages" used) [7]
  • Panis subject to enslavement in Canada by common practice, not formal law, and can be granted freedom (Note: "savages" used) [8]
  • Intendant Gilles Hocquart reports two executions, for abduction and violence against six-year-old and for enslaved man's domestic thievery [9]
  • Master carpenter to be paid for major job in Montreal with merchandise, four bottles of eau de vie, 30 bushels of wheat and cash [10]
  • Brief details of defences and fishing fleets of Louisbourg and other French settlements in region [11]
  • Fishers working banks near Canso may have single sloop or schooner catching 400-500 quintals or send out six to twelve boats or more [12]
  • Previous complaints about poorly cured Canso fish arise because ships load fish before salt curing process is complete [13]
  • Nova Scotia lieutenant governor Armstrong again repeats his requests for increased strength against subject Acadians and nearby French [14]
  • Detailed reasons for settling Nova Scotia with numerous Protestants to protect northern limit of continental colonies against French [15]
  • Detailed proposal for establishing settlers and civil government in Nova Scotia through trusteeship of "honble. and experienced persons" [16]
  • Petition for poor London craftsmen to be settled in Nova Scotia with civil government (tied to petition for salt works in Bahamas) [17]
  • Armstrong visits Minas and finds locals submissive "only from policy" while "inciting the Indians [—] those poor ignorant wretches" [18]
  • "Stocks are Impaired & greatly deminished by such pernicious proceedings" - exporting cattle prohibited except through Annapolis Royal or Canso [19]
  • Acadian deputies can't, as Catholics, execute Council orders, which it fixes by having them made constables "in their own privite affairs" [20]
  • Council committee sets cordwood price after Armstrong declares overcharging French are entitled only to wood they personally need [21]
  • "Some people here tell stories of Indians have been seen some years ago[...]nor did I see one person in Newfoundland had ever seen an Indian" [22]
  • "This day was laid the first Stone of the Fortification here [in Schenectady, New York] under the discharge of the great Guns" [23]
  • New York governor Cosby "laid hold of the people's apprehensions" to convince them money had to be spent on defence, no matter their "poverty" [24]
  • Board of Trade suggests to Privy Council that Massachusetts pay for defences of Pemaquid, which has only eastern fort to check French [25]
  • Gov. Belcher reports success in peace talks with "Cagnawagas," and suggests outlawing private trading to end cheating done to "Eastern Indians" [26]

References

  1. ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. ^ "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ^ Arthur Dobbs, Remarks upon Capt. Middleton's Defence (1744), pg. 6. Accessed 2 July 2021
  4. ^ "An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay" (1752), pg. 49. Accessed 12 July 2021
  5. ^ Letter of Father L.F. Nau (translation; October 2, 1735), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents[...]; Vol. LXVIII.; Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736. Accessed 13 July 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_68.html (scroll down to Page 259)
  6. ^ "La Vérendrye to Beauharnois" (original and translation; June 7, 1735), Journals and Letters of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de la Vérendrye and His Sons (1927), pgs. 197-8. Accessed 23 August 2021
  7. ^ Letter of Father J.P. Aulneau (translation; April 25, 1735), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents[...]; Vol. LXVIII.; Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736. Accessed 13 July 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_68.html (scroll down to Page 235, and to Page 247 for more details)
  8. ^ Letter of King to Beauharnois and Hocquart (translation; April 11, 1735), France Archives nationales. Accessed 12 July 2021
  9. ^ Letter of Gilles Hocquart (translation; October 1, 1735), France Archives nationales. Accessed 12 July 2021
  10. ^ "Agreement between François Soumande Delorme and Pierre Labier" (translation; February 2, 1735), Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed 12 July 2021
  11. ^ "504 Capt. Cotterell to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 15, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
  12. ^ "504 (ix) Capt. Cotterell to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 15, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
  13. ^ "504 (xv, xvii) Capt. Cotterell to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 15, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
  14. ^ "195 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (December 8, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 14 July 2021
  15. ^ "592 1 Reasons for peopling of Nova Scotia" (June 10, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 14 July 2021
  16. ^ "22 Capt. Coram to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (July 11, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 14 July 2021
  17. ^ "546 Order of Committee of Privy Council" (May 1, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
  18. ^ "Extract from a Letter of Govr. Armstrong to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle" (December 8, 1735), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 102-3. Accessed 12 July 2021
  19. ^ "Order to Prevent Exportation of Cattle" (April 2, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Commission Book, 1720-1741, pgs. 204-5. Accessed 12 July 2021
  20. ^ "The Deputys Complaining" (April 28, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 322. Accessed 12 July 2021
  21. ^ "The price of Cordwood again Recommended to the Consideration of the Board" (February 3, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 312-13. Accessed 12 July 2021
  22. ^ "119 i 38 "Capt. Lee's replies to Heads of Enquiries" (September 29, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 14 July 2021
  23. ^ "Schenectady, in the County of Albany, April 25" New-York Gazette (June 9, 1735), image 3. Accessed 15 July 2021
  24. ^ "591 14 Governor Cosby to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (June 10, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 14 July 2021
  25. ^ "554 Council of Trade and Plantations to the Committee of the Privy Council" (May 7, 1735), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 41, 1734-1735. Accessed 13 July 2021
  26. ^ "The Speech of his Excellency Jonathan Belcher(...)to the General Assembly (on) November 19, 1735" New-York Gazette (December 1, 1735), image 1. Accessed 15 July 1735
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