1744 in Canada
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Events from the year 1744 in Canada.
Events
- France declares war on England (March 15)
- Treaty of Lancaster (English-Iroquois).
- Having begun in Europe in 1740, The War of the Austrian Succession spreads to North America (King George's War).
- Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles de Fleurimont succeeded Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye as the Commandant of the western French forts.
Births
- May 22 - Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, naval officer, explorer, administrator (d.1794)
- October 6 - James McGill, merchant, philanthropist (d.1813)
- December 10 - William Berczy, painter, architect, author, and colonizer (d.1813)
Full date unknown
- Elias Hardy, lawyer and office-holder (d.1798)
Deaths
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