1610s in Canada
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Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:History of Canada Events from the 1610s in Canada.
Events
- 1610–11: The English explorer Henry Hudson, in Dutch service, continues the fruitless search for a passage to Asia.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref>
- 1610: Henry Hudson, in service of the Netherlands, explores the river named for him. Hudson explores Hudson Bay in spite of a mutinous crew. Manhattan Indians attack his ship. Mahican people make peaceful contact, and a lucrative fur trade begins.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
- 1610: Étienne Brûlé lives among Huron and is first European to see Lakes Ontario, Huron, and Superior.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- 1611: Champlain builds fur post at Montreal.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":3">Template:Cite web</ref>
- 1612: Champlain is named Governor of New France.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />
- 1613: Port Royal sacked by Samuel Argall and his pirates from Virginia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- 1613: St. John's, Newfoundland is founded.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- 1614: Franciscan Recollet friars arrive to convert the Indians.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- 1615: French Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Canada.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- 1615: Champlain attacks Onondaga villages with the help of a Huron war party, this turning the Iroquois League against the French.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- 1616–20: Smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- 1617: Louis Hebert, an apothecary who had stayed at Port Royal twice, brings his wife and children to Quebec, thus becoming the first true habitant (permanent settler supporting his family from the soil).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Births
- Marie Guenet de Saint-Ignace (1610–1646), French-Canadian abbess and hospital manager<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
- List of French forts in North America
- Former colonies and territories in Canada
- List of North American settlements by year of foundation
- Timeline of the European colonization of North America
- History of Canada
- Timeline of Canada history
- List of years in Canada