Contents

• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Births
• Full date unknown
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1749 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

Events

• Halifax, capital of Nova Scotia, is founded by British General Edward Cornwallis to counter French presence at Louisbourg.
• La Vérendrye was awarded the cross of Saint Louis, in honour of his career.
• French agricultural settlement established in what would become Windsor, Ontario.

Births

Deaths

• December 5 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer (born 1685).

References