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Events from the year 1736 in Canada.
"Cape Breton will remain a Thorn in our Sides" - With Cape Breton's troops and Acadians' numbers, French frustrate British in Nova Scotia[3]
Two priests who reject Council orders in "a most Insolent, Audacious & Disrespectfull manner" are ordered to leave Nova Scotia[4]
Doors of "Mass house" up Annapolis River to "be Closly Naild Up" as Council deals with another priest's alleged defiance[5]
"A. does not know what to do" - Lt. Gov. Lawrence Armstrong frustrated that Acadians and Île-Royale governor resist banishment of two priests[6]
Armstrong invokes treaty with Indigenous people near Cape Sable to get their help in case of murder and robbery aboard ship "Baltimore"[7]
Armstrong summarizes evidence to date in curious case of supposed lone survivor left from ship "Baltimore," forced by bad weather into port[8]
Armstrong updates Board of Trade on Baltimore case, suspecting lone witness is lying and that convicts on-board killed crew[9]
When petitioned about plan to reroute rivulet landowners fear will harm them, Council advises community consultation and its own visit to site[10]
Nova Scotia government to be set up with governor, council, courts and (with "competent number of Freemen, planters and inhabitants") assembly[11]
Fewer French in Port-aux-Basques than thought, capital-crime witnesses still evade trip to England, and JPs are better lawmen than admirals[12]
Priest gives general absolution to crew of French ship in fierce November storm, run aground off Anticosti Island (they get to shore)[13]
Map: Cape Sable to Strait of Belle Isle and Gaspé to Grand Banks[14]
George Clarke says New York can be bulwark against French by settling Kanien’kéhà:ka country with thousands of European Protestants[15]
Clarke recommends Assembly fund new fort at "upper End of the Mohauks Country" to "cover" it and provide protective link to Oswego[16]
Penobscot, denying French influence, insist Massachusetts governor must prevent settlement up Saint George River to preserve peace[17]
Detailed proposal for sending two sloops from Churchill to search for passage west out of Hudson Bay and record tides, soundings etc.[18]
Hudson's Bay Company orders ships north along Bay's western shore to establish trade and record details of land and waters[19]
French have no claim to Canada because merely asking Indigenous people for permission to settle gives foreigners right of dominion[20]
At Lake of the Woods, Jesuit priest describes "this wretched country" and "morally degraded" Cree (Note: racial stereotypes)[21]