1771 in Canada

Events from the year 1771 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

Governors

• Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Lord William Campbell
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Byron
• Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson

Events

• July 17 – Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
• Captain James Cook completes his first voyage around the world.
• Lieutenant Governor Michael Francklin of Nova Scotia travels to northern England to seek immigrants to replace those displaced by the Acadian expulsion.

Births

• January 19: Thomas Talbot, army and militia officer, settlement promoter, office holder, and politician (d.1853)
• June 20: Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, colonizer and author (d.1820)

Full date unknown

• James Bardin Palmer, land agent, lawyer, office holder, and politician (d.1833)

Deaths

• December 23 : Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, grey nun (b.1701)

References