Events from the year 1722 in Canada.


1722
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Canada

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  • The Tuscarora become the sixth tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.
  • Haudenosee League admits Tuscarora as 6th Nation. The refugee band was accepted according to the terms of the League Constitution. No other Native Nations had such a provision as this, other alliances and "confederations" were all temporary and informal.

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"[T]o gain the Indians[...]is to sell them no rum, nor to chett them in[...]trade, and to lett them know [we] will be their master."[3]

Haudenosaunee urge French not to regarrison their village near Montreal because soldiers make women unsafe and youth disruptive[4]

Abenaki at Nanrantsouak defer to Jesuit missionary in religion, council and relations with New Englanders (Note: "savages" used)[5]

Passenger reports capture with others on sloop from Annapolis Royal by French-allied Indigenous men at Passamaquoddy[6]

Gov. Shute declares war on "our Eastern Indians" who kill settlers, as Gov. Vaudreuil admits supporting attacks on vessels[7]

New York requests garrisons on Indigenous land to extend frontier to Great Lakes for trade strategy spanning Mississippi to St. Lawrence[8]

New York's expanding influence on Lake Ontario approved of, though building Niagara fort needs "consent of the Indian Proprietors"[9]

Though "flourishing state of" Canso fishery would draw settlers, survey delay prevents Nova Scotia governor from granting land[10]

Several forts needed for security of Nova Scotia, most immediately at Canso, where French dispute British "sole right" to fishery[11]

Nova Scotia leaders report attacks on British ships and residents, with hostage-taking by both sides[12]

New York Assembly strengthens law against "the selling of Indian goods to the French," which does most to increase French power[13]

Commodore in Newfoundland must intervene when New Englanders "entice and carry away handycraftmen, seamen and fishermen"[14]

"[O]ther men[...]run away with my works" - Mariner complains about someone preempting him with Nova Scotia map based on his data[15]

References edit

  1. ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. ^ Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10538. Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
  3. ^ 68 i Letter of Capt. Cyprian Southack (Boston, March 6, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 23 February 2021
  4. ^ "Decree of the Royal Council: The Missionaries of Sault St. Louis, 1722," The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. LXVII. Accessed 22 February 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_67.html (scroll down to "Page 71")
  5. ^ Letter of Sébastien Rasles (October 15, 1722), The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. LXVII. Accessed 22 February 2021 http://moses.creighton.edu/kripke/jesuitrelations/relations_67.html (scroll down to "Page 83")
  6. ^ "Boston, June 25" The (Philadelphia) American Weekly, No. 134 ("From Thursday June 28th to Thursday July 5th, 1722"), pgs. 78-9. Accessed February 25, 2021
  7. ^ "242 Governor Shute to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (July 27, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
  8. ^ 28 Letter of Adjutant Archibald Kennedy (January 24, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 23 February 2021
  9. ^ 171 Council of Trade and Plantations to Governor Burnet (June 6, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
  10. ^ "134 Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Carteret" (May 10, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
  11. ^ "156 Council of Trade and Plantations to Lord Carteret" (May 25, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
  12. ^ "205 Lt. Governor Doucett to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (Annapolis Royal, June 29, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021; "288 Governor Philipps to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (Canso, September 19, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 25 February 2021 (Also see: "Governor Philipps to Board of Trade" (Canso, September 19, 1722), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 61-2. Accessed 22 February 2021)
  13. ^ "Governor Burnet to the Council of Trade and Plantations" (December 12, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 25 February 2021
  14. ^ "117 Bryan Wheelock, acting Secretary to the Council of Trade, to Mr. West" (April 28, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 24 February 2021
  15. ^ 5 Letter of Capt. Cyprian Southack (January 10, 1722), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 33, 1722-1723. Accessed 23 February 2021