1770 in Canada

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Events from the year 1770 in Canada.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch: George III

Governors[]

• Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Lord William Campbell
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Byron
• Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson^[1]

Events[]

• December – Samuel Hearne departs on his third voyage of discovery
• The city of Saint-Eustache, Quebec is established

Births[]

George Ramsay

• April 7 – William Wordsworth, in Cockermouth, England (d.1850)
• April 30 – David Thompson, fur trader, surveyor and map-maker (d.1857)
• June 4 (baptised) – William Carson, in Kirkcudbright, Scotland (d.1843)
• October 23 – George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie (d.1838)

Full date unknown[]

• William Allan, near Huntly, Scotland (d.1853)

Deaths[]

• February 12 – Christopher Middleton, Hudson's Bay Company captain

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