1750 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
• 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

• 1750s: Hudson's Bay Company Saskatchewan River region, reached by trade drummers sent out with goods to tempt the Indians to York.
• c. 1750: The Ojibwa begin to emerge as a distinct tribal amalgamation of smaller independent bands.
• German immigrants begin to arrive in numbers at Halifax.
• Hidatsa villages, site of ancient trading fair, now with both French and Hudson's Bay representatives present each summer.

  Births

• James Glenie, army officer, military engineer, businessman, office holder, and politician
• Simon McTavish, fur trader and dealer in furs, militia officer, office holder, landowner, seigneur, and businessman

  Deaths

• October 14: Richard Philipps, military officer, governor of Nova Scotia