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Events from the year 1726 in Canada.

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Governor, intendant and bishop of Quebec are to cooperate (each within his bounds) to implant religion and aid trade (Note: "savage" used)[4]

Lt. Gov. Dummer reports 1725 "Treaty of Pacification with[...]all the Tribes of Indians[...]engaged in the late warr with this Government"[5]

Penobscot spokesman Loron tells Dummer that "Canada Indians" (Nanrantsouak and others) want to treat with New England at Montreal[6]

Loron mentions proposal to have English withdraw from some sites, but Dummer rejects it along with Montreal meeting[7]

Penobscot tell Dummer they have no memory of selling land he claims by deed and right, which he says can be settled in court[8]

After signing treaty ratification, Penobscot agree to protect frontier settlers and to ratify treaty at Annapolis Royal[9]

Dummer hopes Indigenous people "may in a short time be intirely drawne from their dependance on the French" for presents[10]

Chiefs and representatives of "St. Johns, Cape Sable" and other nations ratify treaty of 1725 at Annapolis Royal[11]

Treaty is signed by Indigenous people on flag bastion at Annapolis Royal after hearing it read in English and French[12]

Lt. Gov. (of Annapolis) Doucett says Indigenous people signing "seem to be quite tired of the warr and are extreamly well pleas'd"[13]

Lt. Gov. (of Nova Scotia) Armstrong reports Acadians will avoid swearing allegiance by leaving, perhaps for St. John's Island[14]

Acadian Deputies sign oath only after clause added in margin of document "Whereby they might not be Obliged to Carry Arms"[15]

"Dread of the pirates is always a great interruption to the Fishery" - Admiralty asked for warship to cruise Nova Scotia's Atlantic coast[16]

Nova Scotia reports extensive trade by New Englanders and province's French with Île-Royale, "as if they were still Proprietors"[17]

Crown urged to select 200,000 acres of Nova Scotia forest (for naval use), so British settlers can then come in and outnumber Acadians[18]

Lt. Gov. Armstrong reports accomplishments and challenges, ranging from peace to defence to food provisions (Note: "savages" used)[19]

Armstrong enlarges on defence issues following report that "Canada Indians" are coming to "commence a new warr"[20]

Nova Scotia Council orders man to maintain child he fathered after midwife says mother "in her most Violent Pains" swore it was him[21]

In Newfoundland, "there are no persons to administer justice during the winter season, except at Placentia and Canso"[22]

English town with fishing interest in north and northwest Newfoundland wants survey of its "dangerous and utterly unknown" waters[23]

Trade council wants Newfoundland survey "as it will greatly increase the cod fishery [and encourage and establish] the salmon fishery"[24]

"I hope more effectual tho' less severe" - New York governor reports replacing prohibition on trade with Canada with increased duty[25]

New York's issues with French fort at Niagara reveal complex relations with Canada and sometimes divided Six Nations[26]

French fort at Niagara violates treaty, says New York governor to Commander in Chief in Canada, who denies it is British land[27]

"Two French-men and three Indians[...]from the Eastward" sentenced to death for piracy in Boston special admiralty court[28]

Maine soldier is only man able to interpret for "Cape-Sable Indians" accused of piracy (and found guilty)[29]

References

  1. ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. ^ Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10538. Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
  3. ^ "1726 in Canada". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
  4. ^ "Report to serve as instructions to sieur Marquis de Beauharnois (translation; May 7, 1726), France Archives nationales. See elaboration of bounds of authority Accessed 19 July 2021
  5. ^ "4 Lt. Governor Dummer to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received February 25, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 29 March 2021
  6. ^ "The Conference with the Eastern Indians, at the Ratification of the Peace, held at Falmouth in Casco-Bay, in July and August, 1726," pg. 5. Accessed 26 March 2021 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/n05687.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext (scroll down to "Penobscut-Tribe")
  7. ^ "The Conference with the Eastern Indians, at the Ratification of the Peace, held at Falmouth in Casco-Bay, in July and August, 1726," pgs. 5, 6-7. Accessed 26 March 2021 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/n05687.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext (scroll down to "We tho't")
  8. ^ "The Conference with the Eastern Indians, at the Ratification of the Peace, held at Falmouth in Casco-Bay, in July and August, 1726," pgs. 8-12. Accessed 26 March 2021 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/n05687.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext (scroll down to "This is what we Answer")
  9. ^ "The Conference with the Eastern Indians, at the Ratification of the Peace, held at Falmouth in Casco-Bay, in July and August, 1726," pg. 17. Accessed 26 March 2021 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/n05687.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext (scroll down to "So far as you have spoken")
  10. ^ "276 Lt. Governor Dummer to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (August 22, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 29 March 2021
  11. ^ Ratification of 1725 Treaty (June 4, 1726). Accessed 26 March 2021
  12. ^ "The Indians Sign the Articles of peace" "At a Council held[...]the 4th of June 1726," Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 116. Accessed 31 March 2021
  13. ^ "268 Lt. Governor Doucett to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (Annapolis, August 16, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 29 March 2021
  14. ^ "232 Lt. Governor Armstrong to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (July 27, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 29 March 2021
  15. ^ Ceremony at Annapolis Royal (September 25, 1726), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 130. Accessed 31 March 2021
  16. ^ "51 Council of Trade and Plantations to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty" (February 16, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 29 March 2021
  17. ^ "90 Capt. Bradstreet to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (received March 24, 1725/6), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 29 March 2021
  18. ^ "335 Council of Trade and Plantations to the King" (November 10, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 30 March 2021
  19. ^ 349 Letter of Lt. Gov. Armstrong (November 24, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 30 March 2021
  20. ^ 387 Letter of Lt. Gov. Armstrong (December 24, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 30 March 2021
  21. ^ "Mary (D'Aigre) D'iligre's petition" "At a Council held[...]the 20th Of Apr. 1726," Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pgs. 112-13. Accessed 31 March 2021
  22. ^ "306 Commodore Bouler's replies to Heads of Enquiry relating to the Newfoundland Fishery" (October 13, 1725), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 30 March 2021
  23. ^ "69 Petition of Mayor and Merchants of Poole, concerned in the Fishery of Newfoundland, to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (March 7, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 29 March 2021
  24. ^ 99 Letter of Council of Trade and Plantations (March 30, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 29 March 2021
  25. ^ 162, 164 Letters of Governor Burnet (June 2, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 29 March 2021. Gov. Burnet elaborates: 379 "Governor Burnet to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (December 20, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 30 March 2021
  26. ^ 361, 362 Letters of Governor Burnet (December 4, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 30 March 2021
  27. ^ 362 iii, iv Correspondence of Gov. Burnet and M. de Longueuil (July 5 and August 16, 1726), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 35, 1726-1727. Accessed 30 March 2021
  28. ^ "Boston, October 10," The New-York Gazette ("From October 17, to Monday October 24, 1726), pg. 2. Accessed 30 March 2021 https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn84024358/1726-10-17/ed-1/seq-2/ (Note: pages out of order)
  29. ^ "September 1726" in "Appendix," Memoirs of[...]the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq. (last page of unpaginated book) Accessed 25 March 2021