1710 in Canada

Events from the year 1710 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XIV
• British and Irish Monarch: Anne

Governors

• Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Samuel Vetch
• Governor of Plaisance: Philippe Pastour de Costebelle

Events

• The English recapture Acadia, this time permanently, and rename it Nova Scotia.
• Francis Nicholson captures Port Royal for England.
• The English take Port Royal and name it Annapolis Royal.
• Three Mohawk chiefs and one Mahican are received in Queen Anne's court in England as the Four Kings of the New World.

Births

• October 7 - François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil, a soldier and trader. (died 1753)
• July 23 - Jonathan Belcher, lawyer, chief justice, and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia (died 1776)

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