Events from the year 1752 in Canada.

Incumbents French Monarch: Louis XVGuéganic (2008), p. 13. 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)

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