Events from the year 1739 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: Lawrence Armstrong Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley
Events Joseph La France begins to explore between Lake Superior and Hudson Bay. Census of New France counts 42,801 inhabitants.
Births February 23: Jean-François Hubert, bishop of Quebec (d. 1797) August: Alexander Henry the elder, fur trader, merchant, militia officer, jp, and author (d. 1824)
Deaths May 19: Marie Barbier de l'Assomption, sister of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame (born 1663)
Full date unknown Thomas Bird, Hudson's Bay Company chief at Albany Fort
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