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Events from the year 1760 in Canada.
To avoid frostbite, orders are issued that Quebec City garrison be supplied with moccasins "for any duty whatsoever" [4]
French train for planned escalade of Quebec City by climbing ladders against snow walls, "to the great amusement of the women and children" [5]
British destroy gristmill and granary supporting Hôtel-Dieu nuns, who are threatened with banishment if they continue to correspond with French [6]
French force of 10,000 repels attack of James Murray's 3,000 troops near Quebec City (its garrison having lost thousands to scurvy and winter) [7]
"In the greatest confusion" - French abandon trenches outside Quebec (along with artillery, baggage etc.) when British ships arrive and attack [8]
Governor General Vaudreuil stretches truth about Canada's prospects for victory in letter to militia commanders [9]
Merchant at Quebec City expects no sale of goods shipped in "untill some decisive blow is struck[...]to open[...]a free Commerce with the Inhabitants" [10]
Ursulines' agent in France regrets he's not able to send them assistance they need, but glad British "are making a very humane use of their victory" [11]
Warships from Louisbourg destroy French supply ships waiting at Restigouche because British squadron has preceded them up St. Lawrence River [12]
North American commander-in-chief Jeffery Amherst relates 7-week campaign down St. Lawrence (with scores drowned in rapids) to take Montreal [13]
Murray relates month-long campaign up St. Lawrence to Montreal, gaining submission of parishes along way (except Sorel) as French retreat [14]
"The Canadians are surrendering every-where" - British column from Quebec learns they are "terrified" of Johnson's approaching Indigenous fighters [15]
Amherst announces Vaudreuil's and Canada's capitulation, noting French-aligned Indigenous people "shewed the utmost Complaisance to our Army" [16]
Text of capitulation specifies continued enslavement of "Negroes and Panis" by their French and Canadian owners, except those made prisoner [17]
Lt. John Knox tours Montreal and is more impressed with its gardens and "gay and sprightly" inhabitants than its defences [18]
At conference with William Johnson, people of Kahnawake request liquor be banned, trade regulated, priests subsidized and home ground preserved [19]
Military governors are authorized to commission current militia officers and have them collect civilian arms and settle minor disputes [20]
"We now have none to make us afraid" - Boston sermon celebrates conquest of Canada, where "our Religion & Liberty" can now be propagated [21]
Robert Rogers sends message to Detroit commandant to remove French garrison, and assures Wendat sachems that he comes in peace [22]
Rogers accepts surrender of Detroit, directs capture of French forces south to Ohio River and makes treaty with Indigenous nations [23]
For France, climate and expense of Canada make it "not worth their asking" in peace negotiations, unless to further contend for colonies [24]
Indigenous people mention canoe routes between Fort Toronto and Lake Huron and to Thames River and Lake St. Clair [25]
Nova Scotia Council to deport hundreds of Acadians from Chignecto region and Saint John River to make room for settlers from Europe [26]
"Peace and Friendship" treaties signed or renewed by Nova Scotia government and Mi'kmaw, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), and Passamaquoddy peoples [27]
"Great Incouragement to Industry" - Nova Scotia's bounties on hay, hemp, flax and oats, plus "good and sufficient Stone Wall" on Halifax Peninsula [28]
Because of dung and garbage that butchers leave in streets, Halifax will have public slaughterhouse to provide meat to public market [29]
Events from the year 1745 in Canada.
Events from the year 1751 in Canada.
Events from the year 1756 in Canada.
Events from the year 1757 in Canada.
Events from the year 1758 in Canada.
Events from the year 1759 in Canada.
Events from the year 1762 in Canada.
Events from the year 1763 in Canada.
Events from the year 1764 in Canada.
Events from the year 1765 in Canada.
Events from the year 1766 in Canada.
Events from the year 1767 in Canada.
Events from the year 1768 in Canada.
Events from the year 1769 in Canada.
Events from the year 1770 in Canada.
Events from the year 1773 in Canada.
Events from the year 1774 in Canada.
François-Gaston de Lévis, 1st Duke of Lévis, styled as the Chevalier de Lévis until 1785, was a nobleman and a Marshal of France. He served with distinction in the War of the Polish Succession and the War of the Austrian Succession. During the Seven Years' War, he was second-in-command to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm in the defense of New France and then, after the surrender of New France in 1760, he served in Europe. After the war, he was appointed Governor of Artois, and in 1783 he was made a Marshal of France.
François-Marie Picoté, sieur de Belestre II was a colonial soldier for both New France and Great Britain.
John Knox was an officer in the British Army who took part in the Austrian War of Succession and the Seven Years' War. He served in North America between 1757 and 1760 and is notable for providing historians with the most complete account of these campaigns. Knox narrowly avoided being killed in 1759 when a French soldier's musket twice misfired, and he went on to fight in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, where he performed in one of the most devastating volleys in military history. Knox also took part in the Battle of Sainte Foy and was present when Montreal surrendered on 8 September 1760.
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