1717 in Canada

none April 2026 1717 Events from the year 1717 in Canada. Incumbents French Monarch: Louis XVGuéganic (2008), p. 13. British and Irish Monarch: George IGibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 10.1093/ref:odnb/10538. Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required). 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).Biography – GAULTIER DE LA VÉRENDRYE, LOUIS-JOSEPH – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gaultier_de_la_verendrye_louis_joseph_3E.html 2023-05-24 www.biographi.ca Deaths Pierre Boucher, explorer (born 1622)CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pierre Boucher https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02710b.htm 2023-05-24 www.newadvent.org References 1717 in Category:1710s in Canada Category:1717 in New France Canada Category:Years of the 18th century in Canada