Contents

• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Births
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1761 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

Events

• Wednesday July 29 – The British terms of peace are so hard that Choiseul declares: "I am as indifferent to peace as Pitt can be. I freely admit the King's desire for peace, and his Majesty may sign such a treaty, but my hand shall never be set to it."
• Tuesday October 6 – King George III offers Pitt the governorship of Canada, with £5,000 per annum, but, instead, makes Pitt's wife, Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham, a peeress; and £13,000 per annum is granted to the survivor of three of his family.
• Canada under Martial law.

Births

• August 1  : Pierre-Louis Panet, notary and politician

Deaths

• November 15
  • Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye, French Canadian fur trader and explorer (born 1717) ^[3]
  • Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne, explorer (born 1703)

References