1717 in Canada


1717
in
Canada

Decades:
See also:

Events from the year 1717 in Canada.

Incumbents

Governors

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

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.