Events from the year 1742 in Canada.
Incumbents French Monarch: Louis XVGuéganic (2008), p. 13. British and Irish Monarch: George II
Governors Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley
Events First scientific report on the North Pacific fur seal. First Fort Paskoya built by La Vérendrye at Cedar Lake.
Births Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, naval officer (died 1798) Benjamin Frobisher, fur-trader (died 1787)
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