Events from the year 1735 in Canada.
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- Hudson's Bay Company charter allows it to impose its sovereignty (including making war) in lands "not possess'd by any Christian Power"[3]
- HBC employee describes Indigenous people's divination, and how his boss turned to them in 1735 when ship from England was overdue[4]
- Long description of activities and Christian customs of Haudenosaunee at Kahnawake (Note: racial stereotypes)[5]
- Pierre de la Vérendrye informs Gov. Beauharnois that Fort Maurepas on Red River near Lake Winnipeg has been built[6]
- Jesuit missionary afraid to go 3,600 miles to live alone with uncontacted Indigenous people "who dwell in holes" (Note: "savages" used)[7]
- Panis subject to enslavement in Canada by common practice, not formal law, and can be granted freedom (Note: "savages" used)[8]
- Intendant Gilles Hocquart reports two executions, for abduction and violence against six-year-old and for enslaved man's domestic thievery[9]
- Master carpenter to be paid for major job in Montreal with merchandise, four bottles of eau de vie, 30 bushels of wheat and cash[10]
- Brief details of defences and fishing fleets of Louisbourg and other French settlements in region[11]
- Fishers working banks near Canso may have single sloop or schooner catching 400-500 quintals or send out six to twelve boats or more[12]
- Previous complaints about poorly cured Canso fish arise because ships load fish before salt curing process is complete[13]
- Nova Scotia lieutenant governor Armstrong again repeats his requests for increased strength against subject Acadians and nearby French[14]
- Detailed reasons for settling Nova Scotia with numerous Protestants to protect northern limit of continental colonies against French[15]
- Detailed proposal for establishing settlers and civil government in Nova Scotia through trusteeship of "honble. and experienced persons"[16]
- Petition for poor London craftsmen to be settled in Nova Scotia with civil government (tied to petition for salt works in Bahamas)[17]
- Armstrong visits Minas and finds locals submissive "only from policy" while "inciting the Indians [—] those poor ignorant wretches"[18]
- "Stocks are Impaired & greatly deminished by such pernicious proceedings" - exporting cattle prohibited except through Annapolis Royal or Canso[19]
- Acadian deputies can't, as Catholics, execute Council orders, which it fixes by having them made constables "in their own privite affairs"[20]
- Council committee sets cordwood price after Armstrong declares overcharging French are entitled only to wood they personally need[21]
- "Some people here tell stories of Indians have been seen some years ago[...]nor did I see one person in Newfoundland had ever seen an Indian"[22]
- "This day was laid the first Stone of the Fortification here [in Schenectady, New York] under the discharge of the great Guns"[23]
- New York governor Cosby "laid hold of the people's apprehensions" to convince them money had to be spent on defence, no matter their "poverty"[24]
- Board of Trade suggests to Privy Council that Massachusetts pay for defences of Pemaquid, which has only eastern fort to check French[25]
- Gov. Belcher reports success in peace talks with "Cagnawagas," and suggests outlawing private trading to end cheating done to "Eastern Indians"[26]
"George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
"La Vérendrye to Beauharnois" (original and translation; June 7, 1735), Journals and Letters of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de la Vérendrye and His Sons (1927), pgs. 197-8. Accessed 23 August 2021
"The Deputys Complaining" (April 28, 1735), Nova Scotia Archives; Minutes of H.M. Council, 1720-1742, pg. 322. Accessed 12 July 2021