1752 in Canada

Events from the year 1752 in Canada.

Incumbents

 * French Monarch: Louis XV
 * British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors

 * Governor General of New France: Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière then Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville
 * Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
 * Governor of Nova Scotia: Edward Cornwallis
 * Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Francis William Drake

Events

 * 23 March – Canada's first newspaper, the weekly Halifax Gazette, is published.
 * French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts from Lake Erie to the forks of the Ohio River.
 * La Corne began a three-year appointment as the western commander of the poste de l'Ouest.
 * The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar.

Births

 * 25 February – John Graves Simcoe, first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d.1806)

Deaths

 * Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière, governor general of New France, on 17 March (born 1685)

Historical documents
British law mandates switch from Julian to Gregorian calendar, so that 2 September 1752 is followed next day by 14 September

French fort at Crown Point, being "very obnoxious to His Majesty's plantations," must be demolished for security of British colonies

British ambassador insists French government demolish Niagara River fort and that Governor General De la Jonquière be ordered to desist

Agent of Massachusetts government learns in Montreal that its western trade involves hundreds of canoes and more than 1,000 men

Survey of coast near Louisbourg shows where British forces might land and take unprotected road to fortress (Note: "savages" use)

Earlier peace treaty renewed with Miꞌkmaq at Halifax, with hunting and fishing rights, semi-annual food provision and annual presents

Essay on regaining loyalty of Six Nations includes suggestion that superintendent oversee both relations and currently exploitative trade

New Nova Scotia governor echoes Cornwallis opinion that Chignecto Acadians are useful, necessary and impossible to replace

Advertisement for sale of six enslaved people (four teens and two adults) in Halifax

Appointed Halifax fire wardens to direct fire suppression, and anyone robbing houses in or near fire to be punished with death

Estates of Nova Scotia debtors in jail who are "wholly depending upon the Charity of Compassionate Persons" may be tapped for creditors and jailer

Map: Fictitious Northwest Passage that mapmaker Joseph-Nicolas Delisle based on fictitious 1640 voyage of Spanish admiral