1610s in Canada explained

Events from the 1610s in Canada.

Events

• 1610-11: The English explorer Henry Hudson, in Dutch service, continues the fruitless search for a passage to Asia.^{[1] [2]}
• 1610: Henry Hudson, in service of the Netherlands, explores the river named for him. Hudson explores Hudson Bay in spite of a mutinous crew. Manhattan Indians attack his ship. Mahican people make peaceful contact, and a lucrative fur trade begins.
• 1610: Étienne Brûlé lives among Huron and is first European to see Lakes Ontario, Huron, and Superior.^{[3] [4]}
• 1611: Champlain builds fur post at Montreal.^{[5] [6]}
• 1612: Champlain is named Governor of New France.
• 1613: Port Royal sacked by Samuel Argall and his pirates from Virginia.^{[7] [8]}
• 1613: St. John's, Newfoundland is founded.^{[9] [10]}
• 1614: Franciscan Recollet friars arrive to convert the Indians.^{[11] [12]}
• 1615: French Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Canada.^{[13] [14]}
• 1615: Champlain attacks Onondaga villages with the help of a Huron war party, this turning the Iroquois League against the French.^{[15] [16]}
• 1616-20: Smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River.^{[17] [18]}
• 1617: Louis Hebert, an apothecary who had stayed at Port Royal twice, brings his wife and children to Quebec, thus becoming the first true habitant (permanent settler supporting his family from the soil).^{[19] [20]}

Births

• Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace (1610-1646), French-Canadian abbess and hospital manager^[21]

See also

• List of French forts in North America
• Former colonies and territories in Canada
• List of North American settlements by year of foundation
• Timeline of the European colonization of North America
• History of Canada
• Timeline of Canada history
• List of years in Canada

Further reading

• Book: Matthews , Geoffrey J . Historical atlas of Canada, From the beginning to 1800 . University of Toronto Press. 1987. 1. 0802024955 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Henry Hudson North-West Passage expedition 1610–11 . 2023-01-30 . www.rmg.co.uk . en.
2. Web site: Henry Hudson . 2023-01-30 . HISTORY . en.
3. Book: Turner, Glenn . The Toronto Carrying Place: Rediscovering Toronto's Most Ancient Trail . 2015-05-23 . Dundurn . 978-1-4597-3047-2 . en.
4. Web site: Étienne Brûlé: Paris Bourgeois The Champlain Society . 2023-01-30 . University of Toronto Press . en.
5. Web site: Samuel de Champlain 1604-1616 Virtual Museum of New France . 2023-01-30.
6. Web site: From the archives: Champlain put Montreal on the map . 2023-01-30 . montrealgazette . en-CA.
7. Web site: Detail 1613-4, New France colony of Port Royal destroyed by Great Britain - Pre-Revolution Timeline 1600s, America's Best History . 2023-01-30 . americasbesthistory.com.
8. Web site: Destruction of Port Royal: 1613 . 2023-01-30 . www.lermuseum.org.
9. Web site: The Cupids Colony and John Guy . 2023-01-30 . www.heritage.nf.ca.
10. Web site: Newfoundland History - Early Colonization and Settlement of Newfoundland . 2023-01-30 . faculty.marianopolis.edu.
11. Web site: Catholic Encyclopedia -Order of Friars Minor . 2023-01-30 . www.ecatholic2000.com.
12. McCafferty . John . 'The land given to Cain': Franciscans, Hurons and devils in seventeenth century New France' .
13. Web site: Missionaries in the 17th Century The Canadian Encyclopedia . 2023-01-30 . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca.
14. Belshaw . John Douglas . 2015-04-13 . 4.7 Canada and Catholicism . en.
15. Web site: 2018-08-15 . The Huron Assault Onondaga: Last Offensive of Samuel de Champlain . 2023-01-30 . warhistoryonline . en.
16. Web site: History of the Mohawk Valley: Gateway to the West 1614-1925 — Chapter 10: 1609-1615, Champlain's Battles with the Mohawks and Oneidas. . 2023-01-30 . www.schenectadyhistory.org.
17. Web site: Native Americans and The Smallpox Epidemic . 2023-01-30 . www.varsitytutors.com.
18. New Hypothesis for Cause of Epidemic among Native Americans, New England, 1616–1619. 2010 . 2957993 . Marr . J. S. . Cathey . J. T. . Emerging Infectious Diseases . 16 . 2 . 281–286 . 10.3201/eid1602.090276 . 20113559 .
19. Web site: says . Liens-Louis Hébert – Links Passionnée de Généalogie! Obsessed with my past! . Marie Rollet and Louis Hébert settle in Québec City . 2023-01-30 . Your Museum. Your Stories. . en-US.
20. Web site: Louis HÉBERT (1575-23 January 1627) Généalogie Québec GREENERPASTURE . 2023-01-30 . greenerpasture.com.
21. Web site: Biography – GUENET, MARIE, dite de Saint-Ignace – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 2023-01-30 . www.biographi.ca.