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Events from the year 1722 in Canada.

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

• Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Doucett
• Governor of Placentia: Samuel Gledhill

• The Tuscarora become the sixth tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.
• Haudenosee League admits Tuscarora as 6th Nation. The refugee band was accepted according to the terms of the League Constitution. No other Native Nations had such a provision as this, other alliances and "confederations" were all temporary and informal.

• March 23 - born Marguerite-Thérèse Lemoine Despins (1722–1792) the second Mother Superior of the Grey Nuns. (died 1792)

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"[T]o gain the Indians[...]is to sell them no rum, nor to chett them in[...]trade, and to lett them know [we] will be their master."^[3]

Haudenosaunee urge French not to regarrison their village near Montreal because soldiers make women unsafe and youth disruptive^[4]

Abenaki at Nanrantsouak defer to Jesuit missionary in religion, council and relations with New Englanders (Note: "savages" used)^[5]

Passenger reports capture with others on sloop from Annapolis Royal by French-allied Indigenous men at Passamaquoddy^[6]

Gov. Shute declares war on "our Eastern Indians" who kill settlers, as Gov. Vaudreuil admits supporting attacks on vessels^[7]

New York requests garrisons on Indigenous land to extend frontier to Great Lakes for trade strategy spanning Mississippi to St. Lawrence^[8]

New York's expanding influence on Lake Ontario approved of, though building Niagara fort needs "consent of the Indian Proprietors"^[9]

Though "flourishing state of" Canso fishery would draw settlers, survey delay prevents Nova Scotia governor from granting land^[10]

Several forts needed for security of Nova Scotia, most immediately at Canso, where French dispute British "sole right" to fishery^[11]

Nova Scotia leaders report attacks on British ships and residents, with hostage-taking by both sides^[12]

New York Assembly strengthens law against "the selling of Indian goods to the French," which does most to increase French power^[13]

Commodore in Newfoundland must intervene when New Englanders "entice and carry away handycraftmen, seamen and fishermen"^[14]

"[O]ther men[...]run away with my works" - Mariner complains about someone preempting him with Nova Scotia map based on his data^[15]