1744 in Canada

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:List incomplete Template:Year in Canada Template:History of Canada Events from the year 1744 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: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas Smith

Events

• May 3 – News of the declaration of war by France on Great Britain arrives in New France, starting King George's War.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• The Treaty of Lancaster between Great Britain and the Iroquois occurs.
• 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)