1717 in Canada

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Events from the year 1717 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XV^[1]
• British and Irish Monarch: George I^[2]

Governors

• Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Michel de Lepinay
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Caulfeild then Samuel Vetch then Richard Philipps then John Doucett
• Governor of Placentia: Samuel Gledhill

• Daniel Greysolon Dulhut had built a fort, (Fort Caministigoyan), at the same location on the Kaministiquia River
  in 1679.)
• Fort Prince of Wales founded by the Hudson's Bay Company, (rebuilt later in stone in 1731.)

• January 29 -
  Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, army officer (died 1797
  )
• November 9 -
  explorer (died 1761).^[3]

• Pierre Boucher, explorer (born 1622)^[4]

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