• Source: 1708 in Canada

      • Events from the year 1708 in Canada.


      Incumbents


      French Monarch: Louis XIV
      British and Irish Monarch: Anne


      = Governors

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      Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
      Governor of Acadia: Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
      Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
      Governor of Plaisance: Philippe Pastour de Costebelle


      Births


      Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye born December 6 of this year. Already in ill health, he died while travelling from Fort Maurepas (Canada) on the Red River to Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods. He was buried near the junction of the Red and Roseau rivers (died 1736).


      Deaths


      May 6 - François de Laval, 1st Bishop of Quebec (born 1623)


      Historical documents


      "Canada Survey'd, or the French Dominions upon the Continent of America briefly considered in their situation, strength, trade and number"
      Two descriptions of the capture of St. John's, Newfoundland by the French
      "This nott more than 3 minutes after ye first musquetts firing" - Fall of Fort William at St. John's to French, Canadian and Indigenous force


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