1701 in Canada

Events from the year 1701 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XIV
• English, Scottish and Irish Monarch: William III

Governors

• Governor General of New France: Louis-Hector de Callière
• Governor of Acadia: Claude-Sébastien de Villieu
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Sauvolle
• Governor of Plaisance: Joseph de Monic

Events

Full date unknown

• The Peace of Montreal signed: peace treaty between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French. Considered one of the major events in Canada's history, sometimes called the "great peace."
• Detroit, Michigan founded as Fort Pontchartrain du détroit by Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac.
• War of the Spanish Succession begins in Europe; spreads to North America (Queen Anne's War) in 1702.

Births

• October 15 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, founder of the "Grey Nuns" order; died 1771; she was beatified in 1959, the first Canadian-born saint.

Deaths

• April 4 - Guillaume Couture, diplomat in New France (born 1618).

See also

• List of years in Canada

References