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• Incumbents
• Governors
• Events
• Deaths
• References

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Events from the year 1772 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III ^[1]

Events

• Samuel Hearne explores Coppermine River to Arctic Ocean.
• HBC Mathey Cocking, to Blackfeet country west of Eagle Hills.
• The Hudson's Bay Company opens Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan River.
• James Cook and George Vancouver explore the northwest coast of America.
• The Yorkshire emigration begins with the arrival of 62 passengers aboard The Duke of York.

Deaths

• September 30: Jean-Louis Le Loutre, priest, Spiritan, and missionary (born 1709)

References