1752 in Canada
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Events from the year 1752 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: 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts from Lake Erie to the forks of the Ohio River.Template:Citation needed
- La Corne began a three-year appointment as the western commander of the poste de l'Ouest.Template:Citation needed
- The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar.
Births
- 25 February – John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d.1806)
Deaths
- Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, governor general of New France, on 17 March (born 1685)
References
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