1670s in Canada

none September 2021 September 2026 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.HBC Heritage – The Royal Charter https://www.hbcheritage.ca/things/artifacts/the-royal-charter 2023-01-26 hbcheritage.ca 6 February 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230206003955/https://www.hbcheritage.ca/things/artifacts/the-royal-charter dead King Charles II grants charter to Hudson's Bay Company https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hudsons-bay-company-chartered 2023-01-26 HISTORY enHudson's Bay Company Formed https://historyonthisday.com/events/business/hudsons-bay-company-founded/ 2023-01-26 History on this day en-US 1671–84: HBC Forts at mouths of Bay rivers: Moose 1671; Severn 1680; Albany 1683; York, finally on Hayes.Historic Forts and Trading Posts of the French regime and of the English Fur Trading Companies http://www.enhaut.ca/voor1/voorhis.html 2023-01-26 enhaut.ca 14 June 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. Allouez, Claude Jean I 1 1672: Colonial postal officials employ Aboriginal couriers to carry mail between New York City and Albany; winter weather is too severe for white couriers.White Phillip M. https://books.google.com/books?id=_VnZ8_2kSScC&dq=Aboriginal+couriers+to+carry+mail+between+New+York+City+and+Albany%3B+winter+weather+is+too+severe+for+white+couriers.&pg=PA31 American Indian Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic: Chronologies of the American Mosaic 2006-08-30 ABC-CLIO 978-0-313-08155-2 en 1672: Comte de Frontenac becomes governor general of New France, later quarrelling frequently with the intendant and the bishop.Early Canada Historical Narratives --LOUIS DE BUADE, COMTE FRONTENAC http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/finna/finna4a.html 2023-01-28 uppercanadahistory.caBelton Robert James https://books.google.com/books?id=DuJ9l5Jgzz8C&pg=PA71 Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture 2001 University of Calgary Press 978-1-55238-011-6 en 1673: The explorations of Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette lead to the discovery of the Mississippi River.2012-08-03 Expedition of Marquette and Joliet, 1673 https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS520 2023-01-28 Wisconsin Historical Society enJanik Erika 2016-05-16 Remembering The Mississippi Voyage of Marquette And Joliet https://www.wpr.org/remembering-mississippi-voyage-marquette-and-joliet 2023-01-28 Wisconsin Public Radio enJacques Marquette 1673 Virtual Museum of New France https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/jacques-marquette-1673-1694/ 2023-01-28 1674: Laval becomes the first bishop of Quebec.Bishop Laval https://www.mainewriter.com/articles/Bishop-Laval.htm 2023-01-28 mainewriter.comLaval, Bishop François de Montmorency National Historic Person https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=1434 2023-01-28 pc.gc.ca enHeinlein Michael R. 2021-03-10 St. François-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval: America's Missionary Bishop Simply Catholic https://www.simplycatholic.com/st-francois-xavier-de-montmorency-laval-americas-missionary-bishop/ 2023-01-28 en-US 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.Cave Alfred A. https://books.google.com/books?id=8NMeAFQnpFwC Lethal Encounters: Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia 2011 ABC-CLIO 978-0-313-39335-8 148–161 en 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.Faludi Susan 2007-09-07 Opinion America's Guardian Myths en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/opinion/07faludi.html 2023-01-29 0362-4331 1675: The population of New France is almost 8,000.Censuses of Canada 1665 to 1871: Early French settlements (1605 to 1691) https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/98-187-x/4064812-eng.htm#:~:text=1675--Population%20of%20New%20France%20:%207,832. 2023-01-29 www150.statcan.gc.caHICKEY DANIEL 1994 New France: Historiographical Structures and Themes https://www.jstor.org/stable/30302921 Acadiensis 24 1 107–118 30302921 0044-5851Landry Yves 1993 Fertility in France and New France: The Distinguishing Characteristics of Canadian Behavior in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/abs/fertility-in-france-and-new-france-the-distinguishing-characteristics-of-canadian-behavior-in-the-seventeenth-and-eighteenth-centuries/9F05FFF2C16DEDF2614FFC52709A0B75 Social Science History en 17 4 577–592 10.1017/S0145553200016928 147651557 0145-5532 subscription 1676: West Country merchants attempt to enforce restrictions on settlement in Newfoundland.TAVENOR JOSHUA 2018 Weighing the Evidence: Restoration Policymaking and the 1675 Order to Evict Newfoundland's English Residents https://www.jstor.org/stable/44784424 Acadiensis 47 1 41–61 44784424 0044-5851https://www2.grenfell.mun.ca/nfld_history/nfld_history_colonization.htm Colonization and Settlement: 1600-1830 2023-01-29 www2.grenfell.mun.caVoluntary Settlement: The Peopling of Newfoundland to 1820 https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/exploration/voluntary-settlement.php 2023-01-29 heritage.nf.ca 1678: Louis Hennepin is the first European to see Niagara Falls.History of Niagara Falls Niagara Falls State Park https://www.niagarafallsstatepark.com/niagara-falls-state-park/history#:~:text=The%20Discovery%20of%20Niagara%20Falls&text=The%20first%20European%20to%20document,and%20significance%20of%20Niagara%20Falls. 2023-01-29 niagarafallsstatepark.comLouis Hennepin 1678–1680 Virtual Museum of New France https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/louis-hennepin-1678-1680/ 2023-01-29The First People to See the Falls Historical Marker https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=77043 2023-01-29 hmdb.org en 1678–79: Daniel Greysolon Duluth of France explores Great Lakes and negotiates treaties between the warring Ojibwa and Sioux.Daniel Greysolon Dulhut 1678–1679 Virtual Museum of New France https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/daniel-greysolon-dulhut-1678-1679/ 2023-01-292013-04-30 Daniel Greysolon forged peace with native peoples, expanded French reach in Minnesota https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2013/04/daniel-greysolon-forged-peace-native-peoples-expanded-french-reach-minnesota/ 2023-01-29 MinnPost en-US Births J Raudot, Intendant of New FranceBiography – RAUDOT, JACQUES – Volume II (1701–1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/raudot_jacques_2E.html 2023-01-28 biographi.ca See also Canada North America Geography History 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 References External links