1610s in Canada

Events from the 1610s in Canada.

Events

• 1610–11: The English explorer Henry Hudson, in Dutch service, continues the fruitless search for a passage to Asia. ^{[1] [2]}
• 1610: Henry Hudson, in service of the Netherlands, explores the river named for him. Hudson explores Hudson Bay in spite of a mutinous crew. Manhattan Indians attack his ship. Mahican people make peaceful contact, and a lucrative fur trade begins. ^{[1] [2]}
• 1610: Étienne Brûlé lives among Huron and is first European to see Lakes Ontario, Huron, and Superior. ^{[3] [4]}
• 1611: Champlain builds fur post at Montreal. ^{[5] [6]}
• 1612: Champlain is named Governor of New France. ^{[5] [6]}
• 1613: Port Royal sacked by Samuel Argall and his pirates from Virginia. ^{[7] [8]}
• 1613: St. John's, Newfoundland is founded. ^{[9] [10]}
• 1614: Franciscan Recollet friars arrive to convert the Indians. ^{[11] [12]}
• 1615: French Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Canada. ^{[13] [14]}
• 1615: Champlain attacks Onondaga villages with the help of a Huron war party, this turning the Iroquois League against the French. ^{[15] [16]}
• 1616–20: Smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River. ^{[17] [18]}
• 1617: Louis Hebert, an apothecary who had stayed at Port Royal twice, brings his wife and children to Quebec, thus becoming the first true habitant (permanent settler supporting his family from the soil). ^{[19] [20]}

Births

• Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace (1610–1646), French-Canadian abbess and hospital manager ^[21]

See also

• Canada portal
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• History portal

• List of French forts in North America
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• Timeline of the European colonization of North America
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References

1. "Henry Hudson North-West Passage expedition 1610–11". www.rmg.co.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
2. "Henry Hudson". HISTORY. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
3. Turner, Glenn (23 May 2015). The Toronto Carrying Place: Rediscovering Toronto's Most Ancient Trail. Dundurn. ISBN   978-1-4597-3047-2.
4. "Étienne Brûlé: Paris Bourgeois | The Champlain Society". University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
5. "Samuel de Champlain 1604–1616 | Virtual Museum of New France" . Retrieved 30 January 2023.
6. "From the archives: Champlain put Montreal on the map". montrealgazette. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
7. "Detail 1613-4, New France colony of Port Royal destroyed by Great Britain – Pre-Revolution Timeline 1600s, America's Best History". americasbesthistory.com. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
8. "Destruction of Port Royal: 1613". www.lermuseum.org. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
9. "The Cupids Colony and John Guy". www.heritage.nf.ca. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
10. "Newfoundland History – Early Colonization and Settlement of Newfoundland". faculty.marianopolis.edu. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
11. "Catholic Encyclopedia -Order of Friars Minor". www.ecatholic2000.com. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
12. McCafferty, John. "'The land given to Cain': Franciscans, Hurons and devils in seventeenth century New France'". Academia.
13. "Missionaries in the 17th Century | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
14. Belshaw, John Douglas (13 April 2015). "4.7 Canada and Catholicism". OpenTextBC.
15. "The Huron Assault Onondaga: Last Offensive of Samuel de Champlain". warhistoryonline. 15 August 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
16. "History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614–1925 — Chapter 10: 1609–1615, Champlain's Battles with the Mohawks and Oneidas". www.schenectadyhistory.org. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
17. "Native Americans and The Smallpox Epidemic". www.varsitytutors.com. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
18. Marr, J. S.; Cathey, J. T. (2010). "New Hypothesis for Cause of Epidemic among Native Americans, New England, 1616–1619". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 16 (2): 281–286. doi:10.3201/eid1602.090276. PMC   2957993 . PMID   20113559.
19. says, Liens-Louis Hébert – Links | Passionnée de Généalogie! Obsessed with my past!. "Marie Rollet and Louis Hébert settle in Québec City". Your Museum. Your Stories. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
20. "Louis HÉBERT (1575-23 January 1627) Généalogie Québec | GREENERPASTURE". greenerpasture.com. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
21. "Biography – GUENET, MARIE, dite de Saint-Ignace – Volume I (1000–1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

Further reading

• Matthews, Geoffrey J (1987). Historical atlas of Canada, From the beginning to 1800. Vol. 1. University of Toronto Press. ISBN   0802024955.