1717 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1717 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch

Louis XV^[1]

• British and Irish Monarch

George I^[2]

Governors

• Governor General of New France

Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil

• Colonial Governor of Louisiana

Jean-Michel de Lepinay

• Governor of Nova Scotia

Thomas Caulfeild then Samuel Vetch then Richard Philipps then John Doucett

• Governor of Placentia

Samuel Gledhill

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

• January 29 - Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, army officer (died 1797)
• November 9 - Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye, French Canadian fur trader and explorer (died 1761).^[3]

Deaths

• Pierre Boucher, explorer (born 1622)^[4]

Notes and 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, . Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
3. Web site: Biography – GAULTIER DE LA VÉRENDRYE, LOUIS-JOSEPH – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 2023-05-24 . www.biographi.ca.
4. Web site: CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pierre Boucher . 2023-05-24 . www.newadvent.org.