1701 in Canada

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See also:	History of Canada Timeline of Canadian history List of years in Canada

Events from the year 1701 in Canada.

Incumbents

• French Monarch: Louis XIV^[1]
• English, Scottish and Irish Monarch: William III^[2][3]

Governors

• Governor General of New France: Louis-Hector de Callière^[4][5][6]
• Governor of Acadia: Claude-Sébastien de Villieu^[7]
• Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Sauvolle^[8]
• Governor of Plaisance: Joseph de Monic^[9][10]

Events

Full date unknown

• The Peace of Montreal signed: peace treaty between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French. Considered one of the major events in Canada's history, sometimes called the "great peace."^[11]
• Detroit, Michigan founded as Fort Pontchartrain du détroit by Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac.^[12]
• War of the Spanish Succession begins in Europe; spreads to North America (Queen Anne's War) in 1702.^[13][14]

Births

• October 15 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, founder of the "Grey Nuns" order; died 1771; she was beatified in 1959, the first Canadian-born saint.^[15]

Deaths

• April 4 - Guillaume Couture, diplomat in New France (born 1618).^[16][17]

See also

• List of years in Canada

References

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