Events from the year 1743 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 then Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas Smith
Events Concentrated hunting of sea otter by Russia begins. Father Claude-Godefroy Coquart joins La Vérendrye at Fort La Reine becoming the first recorded missionary in present-day Manitoba and the first to travel beyond Lake of the Woods.
Deaths April 11 - Jean-Baptiste Chardon, jesuit missionary (born 1672).
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