1743 in Canada

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Year in Canada Template:History of Canada Events from the year 1743 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV<ref>Guéganic (2008), p. 13.</ref>
• British and Irish Monarch: George II<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Governors

• Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville then Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas Smith

Events

• Concentrated hunting of sea otter by Russia begins.
• Father Claude-Godefroy Coquart joins La Vérendrye at Fort La Reine becoming the first recorded missionary in present-day Manitoba and the first to travel beyond Lake of the Woods.

Deaths

• April 11 - Jean-Baptiste Chardon, jesuit missionary (born 1672).