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1752 in Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ2809260 ↗
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Events from the year 1752 in Canada.

Incumbents

French Monarch: Louis XV

British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors

Governor General of New France: Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière then Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville

Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial

Governor of Nova Scotia: Edward Cornwallis

Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Francis William Drake

Events

23 March – Canada's first newspaper, the weekly Halifax Gazette, is published.

French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts from Lake Erie to the forks of the Ohio River.

La Corne began a three-year appointment as the western commander of the poste de l'Ouest.

The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar.

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