Events from the year 1727 in Canada.


1727
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Nova Scotia councillor is present as Nanrantsouak and other nations ratify peace treaty and discuss issues with New England leaders[9]

Ratification article obliges all parties, settler and Indigenous, to send fighters for united response to attack on any party[10]

Nova Scotia Council reviews letter from Councillor Mascarene on ratification, including "mutual assistance" article[11]

Lt. Gov. Dummer will invoke mutual assistance to get Penobscot to pursue Cape Sable Indigenous people who attacked boats[12]

Dummer and Nanrantsouak chief sachem discuss return of British settlers taken by Indigenous people[9]

Indigenous people note price increase for goods they want and decrease for beaver, and Dummer explains "the Nature of Markets"[13]

Report that "Cape Sable Indians" killed all aboard vessel, danced on shore around their scalps and took some to Louisbourg[14]

"Antimonarchical" Bostonians with Acadians undermine Nova Scotia government and incite Indigenous attack (Note: "savages" used)[15]

Nova Scotia Council decides French "up the Bay" of Fundy refusing to swear allegiance will not be dealing with "our English Traders"[16]

Acadian Deputies insist that oath have clauses allowing free exercise of religion, exemption from military, and property rights[17]

For refusing unconditional oath to King George II, Acadian Deputies are imprisoned and inhabitants prohibited from fishing[18]

Questioning Indigenous men from local regions about reported murder, Council invokes their treaty obligation to make amends[19]

Nova Scotia governor calls for troops at Minas and Chignecto, for Canso fort, and setting up military recruits as settlers after four-year tour[20]

Detailed proposal to grant poor people 50 acres, craftsmen 100 acres and "substantial inhabitants" 1,000 in Nova Scotia (Note: "savage" used)[21]

Much Nova Scotia fish (and most from Canso) sold in Île-Royale, which is also "constantly supply'd from Boston with all sorts of commodities"[22]

Merchants complain about high-handed Placentia commander taking best fishing places, overcharging for goods and abusing people[23]

Newfoundlanders spend winter cutting boards, making oars, building and repairing boats, and repairing structures, while others hunt[24]

Newfoundland shore fish preferable to Grand Banks fish because latter are "in bulk before[...]wash'd out, and is broke [before] spread"[25]

British have right to oppose French at Niagara because Six Nations in "entire subjection to H.M. did surrender all their lands to him"[26]

New York is building "stone house of strength" at Oswego, "lying most conveniently to receive all the far Indians who come to trade with us"[27]

N.Y. General Assembly praises governor's "zeal for[...]securing the Six Nations in the British interest" by building Oswego trading house[28]

Very few "Adirondacks" remain after Six Nations victories, and are not "of any consequence, either in Peace or War" (Note: racial stereotypes[29]

Montreal priest admonishes apostasy of woman gone to New England, citing Catholic doctrine and censuring Protestantism[30]

Devonshire man seeks New England posting as "reward for[...]taking seven sail of sloops etc. manned by Indians who attacked" Canso fishery[31]

"Melancholy, distressful, horrid" - Few survive 12 days at sea in boat without drinking water before reaching Newfoundland[32]

Unusually, this news (that French army will put Louis XV's father-in-law on Polish throne) comes to New York by way of Île-Royale and Canso[33]

References

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  1. ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. ^ Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10538. Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
  3. ^ "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Biography of General James Wolfe". MilitaryHeritage.com. The Discriminating General. Retrieved 2016-07-22.
  5. ^ Stacey, C.P. (1974). "Wolfe, James". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  6. ^ Leblanc, Phyllis E. (1979) [1969]. "Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot, Charles". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  7. ^ Russ, C.J. (1979) [1969]. "Tonty, Alphonse (de), Baron de Paludy". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  8. ^ Rambaud, Alfred (1979) [1969]. "La Croix de Chevrières de Saint-Vallier, Jean-Baptiste de". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  9. ^ a b The Conference with the Eastern Indians, at the ratification of the peace, held at Falmouth in Casco-Bay, in July and August, 1726.
  10. ^ 1727 Ratification at Casco Bay of the Treaty of 1725 (image and transcript; July 5, 1727). Accessed 8 April 2021
  11. ^ "Major Mascarene proceedings in relation to the peace with the Indians approved of" Nova Scotia Council meeting (Annapolis Royal, September 27, 1727), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 164. Accessed 9 April 2021
  12. ^ "774 Lt. Governor Dummer to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (November 6, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021
  13. ^ "The Conference with the Eastern Indians, at the further Ratification of the Peace, held at Falmouth in Casco-Bay, in July, 1727" pgs. 17-18. Accessed 6 April 2021 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/n05687.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext (scroll down to "I have something to say respecting Trade")
  14. ^ "From Boston" The New-York Gazette ("From January 1 to Monday January 8, 1727"), pg. 2. Accessed 15 April 2021
  15. ^ 528 Letter of Lt. Governor Armstrong (April 30, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021
  16. ^ "Methods to bring the ffrench to obedience" Nova Scotia Council meeting (Annapolis Royal, July 25, 1727), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 149-50. Accessed 8 April 2021
  17. ^ "789 vi Deputies of the Grench inhabitants to Lt. Govr. Armstrong" (1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021
  18. ^ "The deputys & inhabitants refuse to take the oath but upon Certain Conditions" Nova Scotia Council meeting (July 25, 1727), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 159-60. Accessed 8 April 2021
  19. ^ "Two Indians examined about the murder and piracy committed by the Indians" Nova Scotia Council meeting (November 7, 1727), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 167. Accessed 8 April 2021
  20. ^ "563 Governor Philipps to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (May 25, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021
  21. ^ "586 Council of Trade and Plantations to the Committee of the Privy Council" (June 7, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021
  22. ^ "721 i Reply to Heads of Enquiry relating to the Fishery and Trade on the South Coast of Newfoundland" (September 30, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol35/pp347-365 (scroll down item 721i to "(xlvi)")
  23. ^ "451 i Petition of Merchants, Commanders of ships and others(...)trading to Newfoundland" (February 25, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021
  24. ^ "721 i Reply to Heads of Enquiry relating to the Fishery and Trade on the South Coast of Newfoundland" (September 30, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol35/pp347-365 (scroll down item 721i to "(xix)")
  25. ^ "721 i Reply to Heads of Enquiry relating to the Fishery and Trade on the South Coast of Newfoundland" (September 30, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol35/pp347-365 (scroll down item 721i to "(xxiii)")
  26. ^ 837 Letter of the Council of Trade and Plantations (December 21, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 15 April 2021
  27. ^ "545 Governor Burnet to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (May 9, 1727), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021
  28. ^ New York General Assembly address The New-York Gazette ("From October 9 to Monday October 16, 1727"), pg. 1 Accessed 15 April 2021
  29. ^ Chap. I The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York; Part I (1727), pg. 19. Accessed 16 April 2021
  30. ^ Attributed to François Seguenot, A Letter from a Romish Priest in Canada, to One who was taken Captive in her Infancy, and Instructed in the Romish Faith, but some time ago returned to this her Native Country (letter dated Montreal, June 5, 1727; translation published in Boston, 1729) Accessed 9 April 2021
  31. ^ "630 i Petition of John Elliott(...)to the King" (1727?), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 9 April 2021
  32. ^ "Providential Escape and Sufferings of Captain Boyce" Seizure of the Ship Industry[....] (1810), pgs. 26-8. Accessed 16 April 2021
  33. ^ "Canso, April 6" The New-York Gazette ("From June 16 [sic] to Monday June 26, 1727"), pg. 4. Accessed 15 April 2021