1733 in Canada
Events from the year 1733 in Canada. Historical documents. Hudson's Bay Company chief factor roams to expand trade, "to the Hazard of my Life," doubling number of skins from "Northern Indians" HBC will sell for 1 beaver skin: 12 needles, 12 buttons, 6 thimbles, 2 scrapers, 1 lb. thread, or 3/4 lb. coloured beads HBC mason rises above others' incompetence at Churchill River construction site, and sketches winter fishing, hunting and timber work Extensive summary of century of English and French claims to Acadia supports French descendant's right to her property in Nova Scotia French  threat in Nova Scotia shows need for Palatines, Newfoundland "straglers," and soldiers with wives to help "peopling the countrey" Lt. Gov. Armstrong orders troops to Minas and boat from Boston to prevent remote Nova Scotia becoming "more independent of the English" Armstrong plans to employ surveyor "to make out a plan of the woods and lands in the Bay of Fundy" and elsewhere in Nova Scotia Receiving ordnance at Annapolis, Armstrong calls for some at Canso, and also effort to undercut traders' prices to please Indigenous people "Cope[...]Agreed to the Justness of their Demand" - Nova Scotia Council decides in  favour of workers' wage demand from colliery management Lt. Gov. Armstrong orders Nova Scotia Council members to address chair at their meetings, and not "Reproach and Reprimand one another" "Redress" - New York governor Cosby rectifies fraud Corporation of Albany used to cheat Kanien’kéhà:ka of 1,000 acres of their land Cosby explains how expanding settlement of northern New York requires "forts in places more advanced towards Canada" Cosby recounts answering request from Île-Royale for emergency food supplies and comments on precarious condition of Louisbourg In Newfoundland, "the New England traders do still continue to carry away numbers of fishermen  and seamen" "Generally trusted on the credit of their masters,[...]many [fishers run debts too high to pay and] endeavour to get to New England" £500 sterling is penalty for any "ships belonging and bound to New England[...]to carry any men more than their ship's company" There is winter "furring trade" in Trinity Bay and north of Cape Bonavista, "but I don't learn that they have any traffick with the Indians" Contract between missionary priest and blacksmith who will work in the Wendat (Huron) village at Detroit (Note: "savages" used)