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1772 in Canada
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1772
Events from the year 1772 in Canada.
Incumbents
Monarch: George IIIKings and Queens of Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-family/kings-queens.html#e2 aem 24 February 2021 11 August 2017
Governors
Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton
Governor of Nova Scotia: Lord William Campbell
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham
Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson
Events
Samuel Hearne explores Coppermine River to Arctic Ocean.
HBC Mathey Cocking, to Blackfeet country west of Eagle Hills.
The Hudson's Bay Company opens Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan River.
James Cook and George Vancouver explore the northwest coast of America.
The Yorkshire emigration begins with the arrival of 62 passengers aboard The Duke of York.
Deaths
September 30: Jean-Louis Le Loutre, priest, Spiritan, and missionary (born 1709)
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