Events from the year 1741 in Canada.
Incumbents
- French Monarch: Louis XV
- 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 Fort Dauphin, was built near Winnipegosis, Manitoba.
- Vitus Bering, in service of Russia, reaches Alaska; Russians soon trade with natives for sea otter pelts.
- Alexei Chirikof, with Bering expedition, sights land on July 15; the Europeans had found Alaska.
- Russians Vitus Bering and Aleksi Cherikov 'discover' Alaska and bring back fur skins (Bering shipwrecked on return and died); the Fur Rush is on.
- The lives of early Alaskans remained basically unchanged for thousands of years, until Russian sailors, led by Danish-born Russian explorer Vitus Bering, sighted Alaska's mainland in 1741.
- The Russians were soon followed by British, Spanish, and American adventurers. But it was the Russians who stayed to trade for the pelts of sea otters and other fur-bearing animals, interjecting their own culture and staking a strong claim on Alaska. Once the fur trade declined, however, the Russians lost interest in this beautiful though largely unexplored land.
- Fort Bourbon established near present-day Grand Rapids, Manitoba.
- François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil appointed commandant at Fort Kaministiquia.
Births
- 6 June - Denis Viger, businessman and politician
- 19 September - Jacob Jordan, businessman and politician
- 3 November - Joshua Upham, lawyer, judge and politician
- 6 November - Joseph-Laurent Bertrand, priest
Deaths
Historical documents
Sloop "Sarah" (Abraham Brasher, captain) lands in Newfoundland with enslaved people purchased in New York
Wanting new trade and discoveries, Hudson's Bay Company countermands Chief Factor Richard Norton's order to stop search for Northwest Passage
Captain seeking Northwest Passage ordered to "cultivate a Friendship and Alliance" with Indigenous people living by "Western American Ocean"
Hudson's Bay Company states objections to Capt. Middleton visiting their forts while searching for Northwest Passage
After much fruitless proselytizing, Jesuit missionary converts everyone at "Mission of l'Assomption among the Hurons" (Note: "savages" used)
Haudenosaunee who bring enslaved Chickasaw to Kahnawake no longer burn them, but adopt and convert them (Note: "savages" used)
Board of Trade warned that Acadians smuggle commodities (sometimes "whole droves of Cattle") to Île-Royale via many east coast harbours
Nova Scotia Council "follow the Antient laws & Customs" of Acadians, except where royal rights or British laws are involved
Council president Paul Mascarene says priests cannot govern "the Temporall by the Spirituall, Incroaching [and] Endeavouring" to rule parishes
Among many warnings, Mascarene says if Acadians devalue British leniency, "we shall find a way to make them repent [slighting] so good an offer"
Council secretary's widow needs his debtors to pay up so she can buy merchandise in Boston to sell and pay his debts
New York lieutenant governor calls for funding of new chapel for Kanien’kéhà:ka, as requested by their sachems
Deed by which Seneca sachems sell large tract of land in Albany County, New York to Crown
Example of music (notes and lyrics) of Indigenous people in Nova Scotia
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