Contents

• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Births
• Full date unknown
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1771 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III ^[1]

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)

Deaths

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

References