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Events from the year 1741 in Canada.
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Sloop "Sarah" (Abraham Brasher, captain) lands in Newfoundland with enslaved people purchased in New York[3]
Wanting new trade and discoveries, Hudson's Bay Company countermands Chief Factor Richard Norton's order to stop search for Northwest Passage[4]
Captain seeking Northwest Passage ordered to "cultivate a Friendship and Alliance" with Indigenous people living by "Western American Ocean"[5]
Hudson's Bay Company states objections to Capt. Middleton visiting their forts while searching for Northwest Passage[6]
After much fruitless proselytizing, Jesuit missionary converts everyone at "Mission of l'Assomption among the Hurons" (Note: "savages" used)[7]
Haudenosaunee who bring enslaved Chickasaw to Kahnawake no longer burn them, but adopt and convert them (Note: "savages" used)[8]
Board of Trade warned that Acadians smuggle commodities (sometimes "whole droves of Cattle") to Île-Royale via many east coast harbours[9]
Nova Scotia Council "follow the Antient laws & Customs" of Acadians, except where royal rights or British laws are involved[10]
Council president Paul Mascarene says priests cannot govern "the Temporall by the Spirituall, Incroaching [and] Endeavouring" to rule parishes[11]
Among many warnings, Mascarene says if Acadians devalue British leniency, "we shall find a way to make them repent [slighting] so good an offer"[12]
Council secretary's widow needs his debtors to pay up so she can buy merchandise in Boston to sell and pay his debts[13]
New York lieutenant governor calls for funding of new chapel for Kanien’kéhà:ka, as requested by their sachems[14]
Deed by which Seneca sachems sell large tract of land in Albany County, New York to Crown[15]
Example of music (notes and lyrics) of Indigenous people in Nova Scotia[16]
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