1752 in Canada
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Events from the year 1752 in Canada.
Events
- French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts from Lake Erie to the forks of the Ohio River
- Canada's first newspaper, the weekly Halifax Gazette, appears (March 23).
- 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
- February 25 - 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 March 17 (born 1685)
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