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1728 in Canada

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1728
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Canada

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Events from the year 1728 in Canada.

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Historical documents

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Nova Scotia governor petitions King for measures to address long-standing problems of defence, communication and control[4]

Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods instructed to mark out at least 200,000 acres of forest in Nova Scotia for Royal Navy use[5]

"Uninhabited (except by a few Indians)" - Petition to settle colonial grey zone (now in Maine) between British and French claims[6]

"Deep Bays, large Coves and Rivers, and most excellent Harbours" - Guide to sailing charted Newfoundland coasts[7]

References

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  1. ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
  2. ^ "George I". Official web site of the British monarchy. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ^ Zoltvany, Yves F. (1974). "Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, Pierre". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  4. ^ 213 i and ii (read May 8, 1728), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 36, 1728-1729. Accessed 21 April 2021
  5. ^ "234 i Draught of H.M. Instructions to David Dunbar, Surveyor General of H.M. Woods on the Continent of America" (June 4, 1728), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 36, 1728-1729. Accessed 21 April 2021
  6. ^ "285 Memorial and proposal...for settling the waste lands between the River St. Croix, the boundary of Nova Scotia and the River Kennebec, the boundary of Maine, N.E." (June 18, 1728), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 36, 1728-1729. Accessed 21 April 2021
  7. ^ "Sailing Directions for the East and South Coasts of the great Island of Newfoundland, or so much thereof as is fully survey'd; the North and East Parts, and those formerly possess'd by the French, being not yet finish'd" A General Coasting Pilot; Containing Directions for Sailing[...]Ports and Harbours throughout the Known World, with a Sett of Sea-Charts[...] (1728), pgs. 129-35. Accessed 8 April 2021