# 1730 in Canada

Events from the year 1730 in Canada.

## Incumbents

* French Monarch: Louis XV
* British and Irish Monarch: George II

### 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
* Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Osborn

## Events

* Seven Cherokee chiefs visit London and form an alliance, The Articles of Agreement, with King George II.
* 1730s: The Mississauga drive the Seneca Iroquois south of Lake Erie.

## Deaths

* Antoine Laumet Cadillac, founder of Detroit.

## Historical documents

* Jesuit's long report on Saguenay region, it's geography and Mistassini Cree, and Innu (Montagnais) near Tadoussac (Note: "savages" used)
* New York governor seeks way to subsidize Oswego garrison and trade (key to Six Nations support) with tax acceptable to Assembly and Crown
* "That they might live and settle among them" - French and Meskwaki (Fox) in Seneca territory concern New York Indian commissioners
* N.Y. legislators on backfired past attempt to squeeze French out of Indigenous trade, and effect of current trouble from Oswego traders
* French send "a thousand sail of ships annually" to fish off Newfoundland and had 220,000 quintals of cod for Marseille market in 1730
* Legal advice that Newfoundland justices' powers don't include judging property cases, and taxation must have consent of some popular assembly
* "Hundreds of these poor creatures are beging [sic] up and down" - Servants' wages are withheld at end of fishing season, leaving them destitute
* Fishing admirals hold themselves superior to justices of the peace and Governor Osborn, whose authority is "only from the Privy Council"
* "So avers to all Government" - Fishing captains and traders won't support civil authority, even at tax rate of "one farthing in the pound"
* Newfoundlanders ask protection from price gouging by "masters of shipps," and that their flax and hemp "be sent home freight free"
* History of 1720s fighting between Saint George River settlers and "French Indians" to keep former's land out of "the hands of the Indians"
* Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods told to, "by the most gentle usage," deter Penobscot from hindering settlement beyond Saint George River
* In face of aggressiveness from Massachusetts, David Dunbar reaches out to Penobscot and their Canada-educated, mixed-race comrade
* Gov. Belcher objects to Dunbar's settlements between Sagadahoc (Kennebec) River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, which Massachusetts claims
* Nova Scotia governor offers Dunbar his limited advice on Penobscot (Note: "animals" and "savages" used)
* Dunbar relates complaints of Minas region merchants required to discount wares they supply to Annapolis Royal garrison
* Sure that his own settlements will take years to actualize, Gov. Philipps envies way new "Province of Maine" governor attracts settlers
* David Dunbar criticized for settlement names like "Province of Georgia" (it's Nova Scotia land) and "Fredericksburg" (which isn't English)
* Fidelity oath (in French) signed by Annapolis Acadians, plus their address welcoming governor's written assurance of religious rights
* 1755 Acadian petition includes 1730 fidelity oath (in English) and testimony that Gov. Philipps promised them neutrality at that time
* With brief French lesson, Trade Board says oath given to Annapolis Acadians doesn't actually require their fidelity to His Majesty
* "Good management, plain reasoning and presents" - Philipps reports that Indigenous and French have submitted to British governance
* Oath of allegiance signed by 591 of "the French inhabitants of Nova Scotia"
* Philipps again appeals for adequate defence of Canso, pointing out its £30-40,000 value in duties and its 6–7 hours march from French forces
* Philipps told issuing settler-requested £2,000 in paper money impossible "till you shall have an Assembly," and then with "very great caution"
* David Dunbar worried about working in Nova Scotia, where people are afraid to travel and "are even insulted in their garrisons"
* Philipps to assist in settling Irish and Palatines in defensible townships between Penobscot and St. Croix rivers (Note: "savage" used)
* Fine and prison sentence set for "wild fellows who catch the horses in the fields and race them to the great detriment of the beasts"
* Hudson's Bay Company employee reports on wild rice, good grass for hay, and thriving fruit trees (!) in Moose River country
* Governors instructed not to seize whale products or discourage that fishery but "to encourage the same to the utmost of their power"