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CHRONOLOGY 11

1731.-Discovery of Lake of the Woods and Lake l"'lanitoba by La Verendrye. Forts St. Charles
and St. Pierre erected.
1733.-La Verendrye discovers Lakc Winnipeg. Fort Muurepas erected. Fir~t forge establiahed
at St. Maurice. Mgr Dosquet, 4th bishop of Quchec.
1737.-Hocquart sends prodllcts of Canada to be exhibited in France. Fort Rouge in Manitoba
erected.
1738.-Fort La Reine in Manitoba erected. Foundation of Order of Sisters of Charity in
Montreal by Madam d'Youville.
1739.-Mgr de l'Auberivière appointed (,0 succeed Mgr Dosquet, but his death occurs on arrivaI
at Quebec on the 20th August, 1740.
1741.-Mgr de Pontbriand, 6th bishop of Quebec.
1743.-La Verendrye's eldest ,on discovers the Rocky Mountains and the source of the Missouri.
1744.-···History of New France, br Fathcr Charlevoix published.
1745.-Louiaburg taken by thc English.
1746.-Los8 of d'Anville's Reet, int.cn<!ed to re-capture Louisburg.
1747.-The English defcated at Grand'Pré. The fol1owing forts erected by La Verendrye's son;
Bourbon, Dauphin, Postroyac and La Corne. M. de la Jonquière, appointed governor
ie made a prisoner by the English near Cape Finisterre, in Spain, and held captive
for two years in England.

Administrator: M. de la Golùonni'ère (1747 to 1749)

1748.-Trea.ty of Aix la Chapelle. Louiaburg and Cape Breton rcsl.ored to France. Forts Gas-
pareaux and Beauséjour bu.ilt in Acadia; la Presentation (Ogdensburg), Bouillé
(Toronto), on the Great Lakes. Bigot appointed intendant.
1749.-Halifax founded, Lord Halifax, founder of the town that bears his name, brings there
600 English families.
]6111. Govemo'r: M. de La Jonquière (174910 1752)

1752.-Death of La Jonquière, at Quebec.

Admiuislra.lor: Charles LeMoyne, 2nd Boron de Longueuil
17thGovernQ1': M. DlVJuesnedeMenneville (175210 1755)

1753.-Construction of forts Presqu'Ile, River aux Bœufs (Machault), below Niagara.
1754.-M. de Contrecœur erects Fort Duquesne at the junction of the Monongahela and Alleghany
rivers.-Jumonville assnssinated by Washington's soldiers near Fort Necessity.
Sieur de Villiers avenges the death of his brother Jurnonville by a striking victory
in taking Fort Nece.8sity.
1755.-The English admiraI, Boscawen captures two vessels of Dieskau's Reet in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence. Braddock defeatcd by Dumas at Monongahela. Forts GaspareauJC and
Beausejour taken by the English. Acadians diepersed by order of general Monckton.
Baron Dieskau, French generlll wounded Ilnd made prisoner with his troopa at Fort
Edward by the English general, Johnson.

18thGovernor: M. de Vaudreuil (1755 10 1760)

SEVEN YEARS WAR (1756 to 1763)
1756.-Arrival of Montcalm, Levis, Bourln.ffiaque and Bougainville.
1757.-Capture of Fort George or WiJliam Henry by Montcalm.
1758.-Louisburg taken by the English. Victory of Cllrillon. Montcalm'a gal!antry gains hlln
immortal fame. The English take Fort Frontenac (KingRton). French forced to aban-
don Fort Duquesne.