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Events from the year 1738 in Canada.
New York colonial officials describe French military assets [3]
New York lieutenant governor warns against new French settlement and treaty with Senecas for fort that will end trade at Oswego [4]
Regarding greater settlement of Nova Scotia, Council gives reasons it has not been possible (and it is not because they are military men) [5]
Settlers with cattle have arrived on Sable Island, and will "Succour, Help and Releive[sic]" any shipwreck victims tossed up there [6]
Tired of "meeting daily and almost constantly" to address litigious people's "frivolous and undigested Complaints," Council sets sittings [7]
Lieutenant governor Armstrong tells official to act with "Lenity, Good humour and[...]live as Peaceably and Quietly with all men as possible" [8]
Many of 8,000 men in Newfoundland fishery are "fresh land-men" who through hard work and weather "become pretty good sailors" [9]
Newfoundland will begin prosecuting capital offences, sparing testifiers expensive trip to British court and loss of year's fishing [10]
Newfoundland governor reports opposition to Irish Catholic immigrants for criminality and danger they pose to Protestants in any war [11]
Cree promise La Vérendrye they will not trade at York Factory, and he builds fort at portage on which people "go to the English" [12]
Program of events celebrating Pierre Gaultier de la Vérendrye's 1738 arrival in what is now Winnipeg [13]
Chief factor at Churchill reports that many "Northern Indians" were "put to such Streights in the Winter" that many "perished with Hunger" [14]
Correspondents discuss apparent but not yet accepted need to find Northwest Passage, and ways to increase enthusiasm for it [15]
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Events from the year 1738 in Canada.
New York colonial officials describe French military assets [3]
New York lieutenant governor warns against new French settlement and treaty with Senecas for fort that will end trade at Oswego [4]
Regarding greater settlement of Nova Scotia, Council gives reasons it has not been possible (and it is not because they are military men) [5]
Settlers with cattle have arrived on Sable Island, and will "Succour, Help and Releive[sic]" any shipwreck victims tossed up there [6]
Tired of "meeting daily and almost constantly" to address litigious people's "frivolous and undigested Complaints," Council sets sittings [7]
Lieutenant governor Armstrong tells official to act with "Lenity, Good humour and[...]live as Peaceably and Quietly with all men as possible" [8]
Many of 8,000 men in Newfoundland fishery are "fresh land-men" who through hard work and weather "become pretty good sailors" [9]
Newfoundland will begin prosecuting capital offences, sparing testifiers expensive trip to British court and loss of year's fishing [10]
Newfoundland governor reports opposition to Irish Catholic immigrants for criminality and danger they pose to Protestants in any war [11]
Cree promise La Vérendrye they will not trade at York Factory, and he builds fort at portage on which people "go to the English" [12]
Program of events celebrating Pierre Gaultier de la Vérendrye's 1738 arrival in what is now Winnipeg [13]
Chief factor at Churchill reports that many "Northern Indians" were "put to such Streights in the Winter" that many "perished with Hunger" [14]
Correspondents discuss apparent but not yet accepted need to find Northwest Passage, and ways to increase enthusiasm for it [15]