Events from the year 1744 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• France declares war on England (March 15)
• Treaty of Lancaster (English-Iroquois).
• Having begun in Europe in 1740, The War of the Austrian Succession spreads to North America (King George's War).
• Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles de Fleurimont succeeded Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye as the Commandant of the western French forts.

[edit] Births

• October 6: James McGill, merchant, philanthropist
• Elias Hardy, lawyer and office-holder
• William Berczy, painter, architect, author, and colonizer

[edit] Deaths

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