1748 in Canada

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Events from the year 1748 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• Louisbourg is returned to France by the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle.
• Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Ile Royale (Cape Breton Island) and Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) to French.
• Treaty of Logstown (English with Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot). English later base their claim to the whole Great Lakes and midwest (or Old Northwest as it was later called) on these two treaties.

[edit] Births

• James Henry Craig, officer, colonial administrator
• June 14: Henry Allen, evangelist, hymnist, theologian

[edit] Deaths