Events from the year 1736 in Canada.


1736
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"Cape Breton will remain a Thorn in our Sides" - With Cape Breton's troops and Acadians' numbers, French frustrate British in Nova Scotia[3]

Two priests who reject Council orders in "a most Insolent, Audacious & Disrespectfull manner" are ordered to leave Nova Scotia[4]

Doors of "Mass house" up Annapolis River to "be Closly Naild Up" as Council deals with another priest's alleged defiance[5]

"A. does not know what to do" - Lt. Gov. Lawrence Armstrong frustrated that Acadians and Île-Royale governor resist banishment of two priests[6]

Armstrong invokes treaty with Indigenous people near Cape Sable to get their help in case of murder and robbery aboard ship "Baltimore"[7]

Armstrong summarizes evidence to date in curious case of supposed lone survivor left from ship "Baltimore," forced by bad weather into port[8]

Armstrong updates Board of Trade on Baltimore case, suspecting lone witness is lying and that convicts on-board killed crew[9]

When petitioned about plan to reroute rivulet landowners fear will harm them, Council advises community consultation and its own visit to site[10]

Nova Scotia government to be set up with governor, council, courts and (with "competent number of Freemen, planters and inhabitants") assembly[11]

Fewer French in Port-aux-Basques than thought, capital-crime witnesses still evade trip to England, and JPs are better lawmen than admirals[12]

Priest gives general absolution to crew of French ship in fierce November storm, run aground off Anticosti Island (they get to shore)[13]

Map: Cape Sable to Strait of Belle Isle and Gaspé to Grand Banks[14]

George Clarke says New York can be bulwark against French by settling Kanien’kéhà:ka country with thousands of European Protestants[15]

Clarke recommends Assembly fund new fort at "upper End of the Mohauks Country" to "cover" it and provide protective link to Oswego[16]

Penobscot, denying French influence, insist Massachusetts governor must prevent settlement up Saint George River to preserve peace[17]

Detailed proposal for sending two sloops from Churchill to search for passage west out of Hudson Bay and record tides, soundings etc.[18]

Hudson's Bay Company orders ships north along Bay's western shore to establish trade and record details of land and waters[19]

French have no claim to Canada because merely asking Indigenous people for permission to settle gives foreigners right of dominion[20]

At Lake of the Woods, Jesuit priest describes "this wretched country" and "morally degraded" Cree (Note: racial stereotypes)[21]

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  1. ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. ^ "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ^ Mr. Salmon, "Chap. VI; Of Nova Scotia or New-Scotland, and Acadie" Modern History; or, The Present State of All Nations; Describing their respective Situations[...]; Vol. XXXI, pgs. 338-42. Accessed 6 January 2021
  4. ^ "The Behavi (sic) of ye Romish Priests" (May 18, 1736), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 343-5. Accessed 21 July 2021 (see "462 iii, iv M. St. Ovide de Brouillan, Governor of Cape Breton, to Lt. Governor Armstrong(...)Abstract" for Île-Royale governor's responses)
  5. ^ "In relat.n to the Mass house up the River" (May 18, 1736), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 345. See resolution of issue Accessed 21 July 2021
  6. ^ "Armstrong to Sec. of State" (November 22, 1736), Nova Scotia Archives; Governor's Letter-Book, Annapolis, 1719-1742, pgs. 110-11. Accessed 20 July 2021
  7. ^ "Armstrong to the Chief of the Cape Sable Indians" (May 17, 1736), Nova Scotia Archives; Governor's Letter-Book, Annapolis, 1719-1742, pg. 102. See investigation of alleged crimes in Governor's Letter-Book, pgs. 99-109, 111, 209 and Council minutes, pgs. 338-42, 349-52, 359-61 Accessed 20 July 2021
  8. ^ "340 Lt. Gov. Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (June 19, 1736), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 24 July 2021 (Somewhat different story related by King's surveyor)
  9. ^ "462 Lt. Govr. Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (November 23, 1736), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 26 July 2021 (Evidence that lone witness is one of convicts)
  10. ^ "At a Committee of Council(...)" (January 24, 1735/6), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 331-2. Accessed 21 July 2021
  11. ^ "282 Proposals for the beginning of a Civil Government in Nova Scotia" (received April 6, 1736), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 24 July 2021
  12. ^ "389 Capt. Lee, Governor of Newfoundland, to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (September 25, 1736), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 24 July 2021
  13. ^ Letter III (February 13, 1742), Voyages of Rev. Father Emmanuel Crespel, in Canada, and His Shipwreck, While Returning to France (1742), pgs. 156-9. (See how survivors get on) Accessed 13 September 2021
  14. ^ Herman Moll, "NewFoundLand St. Laurence Bay, The Fishing Banks, Acadia, and Part of New Scotland" (ca. 1736), McCord Museum. Accessed 23 July 2021
  15. ^ "366 President Clarke to the Duke of Newcastle" (July 26, 1736), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. Accessed 24 July 2021
  16. ^ President Clarke's address to the Assembly The New-York Gazette ("From Monday October 11 to October 18, 1736"), pg. 3 (image 3). Accessed 26 July 2021
  17. ^ "365 i (...)Penobscot Indians' letter to the Governour, July 22, 1736" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 42, 1735-1736. (scroll down to 365 ii for Belcher's reply, and see 375 ii (d) Belcher conference with Penobscot (June 25, 1736)) Accessed 24 July 2021
  18. ^ Arthur Dobbs, "A rough Draught of my Letter to Sir Bibye Lake in April, 1736" Remarks upon Capt. Middleton's Defence (1744), pgs. 87-90. Accessed 19 July 2021
  19. ^ "Number XVI; Copies of Instructions given by the Hudson's Bay Company to their Officers abroad, so far as they relate to the Discovery of a North West Passage; To Mr. Richard Norton, and Council, at Prince of Wales's Fort" (May 6, 1736), Appendix to the Report relating to the Hudson's Bay Company, pg. 255. Accessed 6 January 2021
  20. ^ Mr. Salmon, "Chap. I; Of the French Colonies on the Continent of North-America" Modern History; or, The Present State of All Nations; Describing their respective Situations[...]; Vol. XXXI, pgs. 554-7. Accessed 6 January 2021
  21. ^ J.P. Aulneau, "Letter from Reverend father Aulneau, of the Society of Jesus, to Reverend Father Bonin"] (April 30, 1736), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. LXVIII; Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736. Accessed 23 July 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_68.html (scroll down to Page 285, and down to Page 311 for news of Aulneau's death soon after this letter)