1717 in Canada

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Events from the year 1717 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

  • French Monarch: Louis XV
  • British and Irish Monarch: George I

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[]

Deaths[]

  • Pierre Boucher, explorer (born 1622)

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