1748 in Canada
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Events from the year 1748 in Canada.
Incumbents
Governors
- Governor General of New France: Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière
- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
- Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
- Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Charles Watson
Events
- Louisbourg is returned to France by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.
- Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island) and Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) to French.
- Treaty of Logstown (English with Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot). English later base their claim to the whole Great Lakes and midwest (or Old Northwest as it was later called) on these two treaties.
Births
- June 14: Henry Allen, evangelist, hymnist, theologian (d.1784)
Full date unknown
- James Henry Craig, officer, colonial administrator (d.1812)
Deaths
- August 12: Jean Jeantot, Canadian Catholic brother and schoolmaster (born c. 1666)[3]
References
- ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
- ^ "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ Grimard, Jacques (1974). "Jeantot, Jean". In Halpenny, Francess G. (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 4 January 2012.