1728 in Canada

Events from the year 1728 in Canada.

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See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV^[1]
• British and Irish Monarch: George II^[2]

Governors

• Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Étienne Perier
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong
• Governor of Placentia: Samuel Gledhill

Events

• Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye was appointed commandant of the French posts on the north shore of Lake Superior and stationed at Fort Kaministiquia.^[3]
• Vitus Bering sails through the Bering Strait.

Births

• November 7 [O.S. October 27] - James Cook killed by Hawaiian natives, cutting short his search for Northwest Passage. (died 1779)
• Samuel Holland, army officer, military engineer, surveyor, office holder, politician, and landowner (died 1801)

Deaths

• February 20 - J Raudot, Intendant of New France (born 1638)

Historical documents

Nova Scotia governor petitions King for measures to address long-standing problems of defence, communication and control^[4]

Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods instructed to mark out at least 200,000 acres of forest in Nova Scotia for Royal Navy use^[5]

"Uninhabited (except by a few Indians)" - Petition to settle colonial grey zone (now in Maine) between British and French claims^[6]

"Deep Bays, large Coves and Rivers, and most excellent Harbours" - Guide to sailing charted Newfoundland coasts^[7]

References

1. Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
2. "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
3. Zoltvany, Yves F. (1974). "Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, Pierre". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
4. 213 i and ii (read May 8, 1728), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 36, 1728-1729. Accessed 21 April 2021
5. "234 i Draught of H.M. Instructions to David Dunbar, Surveyor General of H.M. Woods on the Continent of America" (June 4, 1728), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 36, 1728-1729. Accessed 21 April 2021
6. "285 Memorial and proposal...for settling the waste lands between the River St. Croix, the boundary of Nova Scotia and the River Kennebec, the boundary of Maine, N.E." (June 18, 1728), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 36, 1728-1729. Accessed 21 April 2021
7. "Sailing Directions for the East and South Coasts of the great Island of Newfoundland, or so much thereof as is fully survey'd; the North and East Parts, and those formerly possess'd by the French, being not yet finish'd" A General Coasting Pilot; Containing Directions for Sailing[...]Ports and Harbours throughout the Known World, with a Sett of Sea-Charts[...] (1728), pgs. 129-35. Accessed 8 April 2021