1774 in Canada

This article does not cite any sources. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Part of a series on the
History of Canada
Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe
Timeline (list)
Pre-colonization 1534–1763 1764–1867 1867–1914 1914–1945 1945–1960 1960–1981 1982–present
Historically significant
Events Sites People
Topics
Indigenous Cultural Constitutional Economic Former colonies Immigration Military Monarchical Population Territorial evolution Women
By provinces and territories
Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Nunavut Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon
Research
Bibliography Historiography
Canada portal
v t

Events from the year 1774 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

Events[]

• September 4 – Delegates from twelve colonies discuss measures for common safety, at Philadelphia. Canada and Georgia are not represented, though invited. Vermont, not being organized, is not invited.
• Lord Dunmore's War fought in Virginia between settlers and Shawnees.
• The first Continental Congress meets.
• Guy Carleton's recommendations are instituted in the Quebec Act, which introduces British criminal law but retains French civil law and guarantees religious freedom for Roman Catholics. The Act's geographical claims, and toleration of Roman Catholics, were so offensive to the 13 Colonies that it helped precipitate the American War of Independence.
• Juan Perez ordered by Spain to explore west coast; discovers Prince of Wales Island, .

Births[]

• February 4: Frederick Traugott Pursh, botanist (d.1820)
• March 13: Rose Fortune, entrepreneur (d.1864)
• August 19: Denis-Benjamin Viger, politician, businessman and politician (d.1861)
• September 5: Enos Collins, seaman, merchant, financier, and legislator (d.1871)
• September 17: William Fitzwilliam Owen, naval officer, hydrographic surveyor (d.1857)
• December 27: Brenton Halliburton, army officer, lawyer, judge, and politician (d.1860)

Deaths[]

• July 11: Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, superintendent of northern Indians (b. 1715)

References[]