Events from the year 1717 in Canada.
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edit- Fort Kaministiquia was founded by French merchants to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade and seek a route to the western sea. (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.)
Births
edit- January 29 - Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, army officer (died 1797)
- November 9 - Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye, French Canadian fur trader and explorer (died 1761).[3]
Deaths
edit- Pierre Boucher, explorer (born 1622)[4]
References
edit- ^ Guéganic (2008), p. 13.
- ^ Gibbs, G. C. (September 2004; online edn, January 2006) "George I (1660–1727)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10538. Retrieved 30 July 2007 (subscription required).
- ^ "Biography – GAULTIER DE LA VÉRENDRYE, LOUIS-JOSEPH – Volume III (1741-1770) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pierre Boucher". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
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