1670s in Canada explained

Events from the 1670s in Canada.

Events

• 2 May 1670: Charles II (England) charters Hudson's Bay Company in London. Underwritten by a group of English merchants, HBC is granted trade rights over Rupert's Land—i.e., all territory draining into Hudson Bay. No treaties or compensation to the First Nations there (mostly Ojibwe, Cree peoples) until the late 19th and early 20th centuries; no treaties ever made on large expanse east of Bay.^{[1] [2] [3]}
• 1671-84: HBC Forts at mouths of Bay rivers: Moose 1671; Severn 1680; Albany 1683; York, finally on Hayes.^[4]
• June 14, 1671 - At Sault Ste. Marie, four Jesuit priests led by Father Claude-Jean Allouez representing the Roman Catholic Church, and Simon Francois Daumont, Sieur de St. Lusson held aloft a sword and a symbolic tuft of sod, and declared to the indigenous First Nations peoples that all of the Great Lakes country was henceforth a possession of King Louis XIV of France.^[5]
• 1672: Colonial postal officials employ Aboriginal couriers to carry mail between New York City and Albany; winter weather is too severe for white couriers.^[6]
• 1672: Comte de Frontenac becomes governor general of New France, later quarrelling frequently with the intendant and the bishop.^{[7] [8]}
• 1673: The explorations of Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette lead to the discovery of the Mississippi River.^{[9] [10] [11]}
• 1674: Laval becomes the first bishop of Quebec.^{[12] [13] [14]}
• 1675-76: Bacon's Rebellion—Third major war between Virginia settlers and Virginia and Maryland Native Americans. Bacon's army kills and enslaves Susquehannock, Occaneechi, Appomatuck, Manakin, members of Powhattan Confederacy. Bacon leads brief rebellion against English Crown authority when his English military murderer commission is rescinded because of excessive brutalities.^[15]
• 1675-76: Metacom's (King Philip's) War against the New England Confederation of colonies - Wampanoag, later joined by Abenaki, Nipmucs and Narragansetts. Mohawks stay neutral; Mohegans, Pequots, Niantics, and Massachusetts tribes back the English. Metacom loses. English government executes Metacom in 1676, nails body parts to town hall, sells wife, children, followers to plantation slavery.^[16]
• 1675: The population of New France is almost 8,000.^{[17] [18] [19]}
• 1676: West Country merchants attempt to enforce restrictions on settlement in Newfoundland.^{[20] [21] [22]}
• 1678: Louis Hennepin is the first European to see Niagara Falls.^{[23] [24] [25]}
• 1678-79: Daniel Greysolon Duluth of France explores Great Lakes and negotiates treaties between the warring Ojibwa and Sioux.^{[26] [27]}

Births

• J Raudot, Intendant of New France^[28]

See also

• Former colonies and territories in Canada
• History of Canada
• List of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts
• List of years in Canada
• Timeline of the European colonization of North America

Notes and References

1. Web site: HBC Heritage — The Royal Charter . 2023-01-26 . www.hbcheritage.ca.
2. Web site: King Charles II grants charter to Hudson's Bay Company . 2023-01-26 . HISTORY . en.
3. Web site: Hudson's Bay Company Formed . 2023-01-26 . History on this day . en-US.
4. Web site: Historic Forts and Trading Posts of the French regime and of the English Fur Trading Companies . 2023-01-26 . www.enhaut.ca.
5. Allouez, Claude Jean . I . 1.
6. Book: White, Phillip M. . American Indian Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic: Chronologies of the American Mosaic . 2006-08-30 . ABC-CLIO . 978-0-313-08155-2 . en.
7. Web site: Early Canada Historical Narratives --LOUIS DE BUADE, COMTE FRONTENAC . 2023-01-28 . www.uppercanadahistory.ca.
8. Book: Belton, Robert James . Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture . 2001 . University of Calgary Press . 978-1-55238-011-6 . en.
9. Web site: 2012-08-03 . Expedition of Marquette and Joliet, 1673 . 2023-01-28 . Wisconsin Historical Society . en.
10. Web site: Janik . Erika . 2016-05-16 . Remembering The Mississippi Voyage Of Marquette And Joliet . 2023-01-28 . Wisconsin Public Radio . en.
11. Web site: Jacques Marquette 1673 Virtual Museum of New France . 2023-01-28.
12. Web site: Bishop Laval . 2023-01-28 . www.mainewriter.com.
13. Web site: Laval, Bishop François de Montmorency National Historic Person . 2023-01-28 . www.pc.gc.ca . en.
14. Web site: Heinlein . Michael R. . 2021-03-10 . St. François-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval: America's Missionary Bishop Simply Catholic . 2023-01-28 . en-US.
15. Book: Cave, Alfred A. . Lethal Encounters: Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia . 2011 . ABC-CLIO . 978-0-313-39335-8 . 148–161 . en.
16. News: Faludi . Susan . 2007-09-07 . Opinion America's Guardian Myths . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-01-29 . 0362-4331.
17. Web site: Censuses of Canada 1665 to 1871: Early French settlements (1605 to 1691) . 2023-01-29 . www150.statcan.gc.ca.
18. HICKEY . DANIEL . 1994 . New France: Historiographical Structures and Themes . Acadiensis . 24 . 1 . 107–118 . 30302921 . 0044-5851.
19. Landry . Yves . 1993 . Fertility in France and New France: The Distinguishing Characteristics of Canadian Behavior in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries . Social Science History . en . 17 . 4 . 577–592 . 10.1017/S0145553200016928 . 147651557 . 0145-5532.
20. TAVENOR . JOSHUA . 2018 . Weighing the Evidence: Restoration Policymaking and the 1675 Order to Evict Newfoundland's English Residents . Acadiensis . 47 . 1 . 41–61 . 44784424 . 0044-5851.
21. Web site: Colonization and Settlement: 1600-1830. 2023-01-29 . www2.grenfell.mun.ca.
22. Web site: Voluntary Settlement: The Peopling of Newfoundland to 1820 . 2023-01-29 . www.heritage.nf.ca.
23. Web site: History of Niagara Falls Niagara Falls State Park . 2023-01-29 . www.niagarafallsstatepark.com.
24. Web site: Louis Hennepin 1678-1680 Virtual Museum of New France . 2023-01-29.
25. Web site: The First People to See the Falls Historical Marker . 2023-01-29 . www.hmdb.org . en.
26. Web site: Daniel Greysolon Dulhut 1678-1679 Virtual Museum of New France . 2023-01-29.
27. Web site: 2013-04-30 . Daniel Greysolon forged peace with native peoples, expanded French reach in Minnesota . 2023-01-29 . MinnPost . en-US.
28. Web site: Biography – RAUDOT, JACQUES – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 2023-01-28 . www.biographi.ca.