1717 in Canada

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Events from the year 1717 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV ^[1]
• British and Irish Monarch: George I ^[2]

Governors

• Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Michel de Lepinay
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Caulfeild then Samuel Vetch then Richard Philipps then John Doucett
• Governor of Placentia: Samuel Gledhill

Events

• Fort Kaministiquia was founded by French merchants to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade and seek a route to the western sea. (Daniel Greysolon Dulhut had built a fort, (Fort Caministigoyan), at the same location on the Kaministiquia River in 1679.)
• Fort Prince of Wales founded by the Hudson's Bay Company, (rebuilt later in stone in 1731.)

Births

• January 29 - Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, army officer (died 1797)
• November 9 - Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye, French Canadian fur trader and explorer (died 1761). ^[3]

Deaths

• Pierre Boucher, explorer (born 1622) ^[4]

References

1. Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
2. Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi : 10.1093/ref:odnb/10538. Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
3. "Biography – GAULTIER DE LA VÉRENDRYE, LOUIS-JOSEPH – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
4. "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pierre Boucher". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2023-05-24.