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((Year in Canada|1761))
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Events from the year '''1761 in Canada'''.

==Incumbents==
*[[List of Canadian monarchs|French Monarch]]: [[Louis XV]]<ref>Guéganic (2008), p. 13.</ref>
*[[List of Canadian monarchs|British and Irish Monarch]]: [[George III]]<ref name="rh">((cite web |date=31 December 2015 |title=George III |url=https://www.royal.uk/george-iii-r-1760-1820 |access-date=18 April 2016 |website=Official website of the British monarchy |publisher=Royal Household))</ref>

===Governors===
*[[Governor General of the Province of Canada|Governor of the Province of Quebec]]: [[Jeffery Amherst]]
*[[List of colonial governors of Louisiana|Colonial Governor of Louisiana]]: [[Louis Billouart]]
*[[Governor of Nova Scotia]]: [[Jonathan Belcher (jurist)|Jonathan Belcher]]
*[[Colonial Governor of Newfoundland|Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland]]: [[Richard Edwards (Royal Navy officer, died 1795)|Richard Edwards]]

==Events==
* Wednesday July 29 – The British terms of peace are so hard that [[Étienne François, duc de Choiseul|Choiseul]] declares: "I am as indifferent to peace as [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|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 of the United Kingdom|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 [[Earl of Chatham|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 in Canada|1717]])<ref>((cite web |title=Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye ((!)) The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/louis-joseph-gaultier-de-la-verendrye |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=24 February 2021))</ref>
** [[Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne]], explorer (born [[1703 in Canada|1703]])

==Historical documents==
French [[Royal court|court]] accuses British of [[French and Indian War#Background|starting war]] over borders of Acadia and Canada (with [[Seven Years' War#In Europe|conflict extending]] to fighting on four continents)<ref>''An Historical Memorial of the Negotiation of France and England'' [from March 26 to September 20, 1761] (translation; 1761), pgs. [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32756/11?r=0&s=1 4] and [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32756/14?r=0&s=1 7] Accessed 22 March 2022</ref>

Britain refuses to cede [[Cape Breton Island#French and Indian War|Cape Breton]] to France (even with pledge of no [[Fortress of Louisbourg|fortifications]]), but agrees [[Dunkirk#Corsair base|conditionally]] to allow French fishing<ref>[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32756/50?r=0&s=1 "The answer from England arrived the 30th June"] ''An Historical Memorial of the Negotiation of France and England'' [from March 26 to September 20, 1761] (translation; 1761), pg. 43. (See [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32756/49?r=0&s=1 France's proposal] to give up Canada but keep Cape Breton, and [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32756/94?r=0&s=1 Britain's agreement] to allow unfortified French port in Gulf of St. Lawrence; see also [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32756/116?r=0&s=1 breakdown] of 1761 negotiations, and  [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.44376/355?r=0&s=1 "the most material Variations"] between failed 1761 proposals and agreed 1762 proposals) Accessed 22 March 2022</ref>

French policy on ceding [[French colonial empire#The Americas|American possessions]] to Britain should consider not colony size, but economic and strategic advantages<ref>[http://international.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?intldl/ascfr:@field(DOCID+@lit(gcfr0007_0515)) "Memoir on the Boundaries of Louisiana"] (French with English translation; August 10, 1761), in ''Anglo-French Boundary Disputes in the West, 1749-1763'', French Series, Volume II, Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Volume XXVII (1936), pgs. 344-51, 57-8. Accessed 18 March 2022</ref>

Populating [[Canada (New France)|Canada]] will only drain [[Thirteen Colonies|other British colonies]], which should be consolidated by "becoming more populous, and [thus] compact"<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2019amimp75608/?sp=43 "The compact figure of France"] An Enquiry into the Value of Canada and Guadaloupe: in answer to a late pamphlet ... called, The interest of Great Britain consider'd with regard to her colonies, and the acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe (1761), pgs. 38-9. (See also opinion that France must give up all North America because [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.40751/20?r=0&s=2 "Canada produces nothing that can ever possibly make a colony flourishing"]) Accessed 21 March 2022</ref>

Advice of Waybukcumigut, "chief and captain" of [[Mississaugas#History|Mississaugas]], in essay on improving relations with Indigenous people (Note: "savages" used)<ref>[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_09353/34?r=0&s=1 (Text in italics)] The Importance of Canada Considered (1761), pgs. 32-4. (See also [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_09353/8?r=0&s=1 "the disposition of the Indians, and their method of making war"] Accessed 22 March 2022</ref>

British ordered not to provoke [[French Canadians|Canadians]] on their loss, nor their "language, dress, Manners, Customs, or Country," nor their [[Anti-Catholicism#Canada|"mistaken Religion"]]<ref>[https://canadahistory.com/sections/documents/empire/wyndham_quebec_policy.html Letter of Charles Wyndham, Earl of Egremont, to Jeffery Amherst] (excerpt; December 12, 1761). Accessed 25 March 2022</ref>

British map entire [[St. Lawrence River]] above [[L'Isle-aux-Coudres]] in detail (Indigenous and settler towns and fields, woods and swamps etc.)<ref>[https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=4134077&lang=eng Plan of Canada or the province of Quebec from the uppermost settlements to the island of Coudre(…)] (1761–3). (See [https://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/albums/72157719223389847 Flickr gallery] of map's sections) Accessed 21 March 2022</ref>

Prints depict [[Bombardment|damaged and destroyed buildings]] in Quebec City<ref>Richard Short, [http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M970.67.11 "View of the Cathedral, Jesuits College, and Recollect Friars Church"] [http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M2484 "A View of the Treasury and Jesuits College"] [http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M2486 "A View of the Inside of the Jesuits Church"] [http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M2491 "A View of the Bishop's House with the Ruins as they appear in going down the Hill From the Upper to the Lower Town"] (1761), McCord Museum. Accessed 23 March 2022</ref>

Canada is cold because winds passing over snow are full of "nitrous particles," and there are too few "sulphurous exhalations" as little land is tilled<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2019amimp75608/?sp=39 "It is not very difficult to assign the causes of this cold"] An Enquiry into the Value of Canada and Guadaloupe[....] (1761), pg. 34. Accessed 21 March 2022</ref>

[[Nova Scotia Council]] rejects [[Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst#French and Indian War|Gen. Amherst's]] "recommending the Continuation of the French [[Expulsion of the Acadians|Accadians]]" that royal order and [[Nova Scotia House of Assembly|provincial assembly]] forbid<ref>[https://archives.novascotia.ca/deportation/archives/?Number=ONEII&Page=314 Council meeting] (February 20, 1761), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 314-18. Accessed 23 March 2022</ref>

"Extremely necessary that the inhabitants should be assisted by the Acadians" to repair [[Levee#Coastal flood prevention|dykes]] and recover [[Aboiteau|marsh lands]] in Nova Scotia<ref>[https://archives.novascotia.ca/deportation/archives/?Number=ONEII&Page=319 Letter of Pres. Belcher] (Govrs. Letter Book; June 18, 1761), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 319-20. Accessed 23 March 2022</ref>

[[Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross#Seven Years' War|Commodore Lord Colville]] reports that Acadians of "Bays of [[Baie Verte (Northumberland Strait)|Vert]], [[Miramichi Bay|Miramichi]], [[Chaleur Bay|Chaleurs]] and [[Gaspé Bay|Gaspey]]" have surrendered and their vessels are destroyed<ref>Dispatch of Lord Colville (November 26, 1761), "The Recapture of Saint John’s, Newfoundland; Dispatches of Rear-Admiral, Lord Colville, 1761-1762," Occasional Paper Number Six, Maritime Museum of Canada (1959). Accessed 21 March 2022 http://ngb.chebucto.org/Articles/colville-1762.shtml (scroll down to "Northumberland at Halifax, 26th Nov. 1761"; see also [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.44376/241?r=0&s=1 details] of attack and residents taken prisoner)</ref>

[[Gamaliel Smethurst|Trader's]] work in [[Chaleur Bay]] ends when [[Expulsion of the Acadians#Restigouche|Acadians expelled]], who (like [[Mi%EA%9E%8Ckmaq#Covenant Chain of Peace and Friendship Treaties|Mi'kmaq]]) take him to [[Isthmus_of_Chignecto|Chignecto]] after his ship deserts him (Note: "savages" used)<ref>Gamaliel Smethurst, [https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/339951/a-narrative-of-an-extraordinary-escape-out-of-the-hands-of-t A Narrative of an Extraordinary Escape Out of the Hands of the Indians(....)] (1774). Accessed 14 July 2022</ref>

Vessels arriving at [[History of Halifax (former city)#French and Indian War|Halifax]] with "any Plague, [[smallpox|Small-Pox]], Malignant Fever, or other contagious Distemper" must [[quarantine]] two miles below town<ref>[https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-prevent-spreading-contagious-distempers "An Act to prevent the spreading of contagious Distempers"] (1761), 1 George III - Chapter 6, British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. Accessed 21 March 2022</ref>

With [[Deforestation|clearing of land]] in Nova Scotia comes risk of [[Wildfire|forest fire]], and [[Grand jury|grand juries]] at county [[Court of quarter sessions|quarter sessions]] are to develop prevention regulations<ref>[https://bnald.lib.unb.ca/legislation/act-preventing-damages-unseasonable-burning-or-firing-woods "An Act for preventing Damages by unseasonable burning, or firing of the Woods"] (1761), 1 George III - Chapter 5, British North American Legislative Database, 1758-1867. Accessed 21 March 2022</ref>

Economy of [[French Shore|French fishery on Newfoundland]] includes trade with [[NunatuKavut#History|Labrador "Esquameau]]," whaling, and timber for shipbuilding<ref>T. Cole, [https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.18730/46?r=0&s=1 "The French (by means of their Fishery"] "The State of the Newfoundland Fishery, with a Plan [of] the 12th of May, 1761, to exclude the French from that Trade," in An Account of the Island of Newfoundland[....] (1765), pg. 31. Accessed 23 March 2022</ref>

[[Alexander Henry the elder|Alexander Henry's]] [[Fur brigade#Canoe|canoe brigade]] journey begins at [[Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue#History|Sainte-Anne]], where his men go to [[Confession (religion)#Catholicism|confession]] and later receive 8 gallons of rum each<ref>Alexander Henry, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/45/reader.html#24 "In a short time, we reached(...)Saint-Anne"] ''Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories''[....] (1809), pg. 16. (See also voyageurs' [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/45/reader.html#32 method] of portaging cargo) Accessed 24 March 2022</ref>

[[Alexander Henry the elder#Michilimackinac and the Ojibwa Indians|Warned]] repeatedly that, being English, he would be killed at Michilimackinac, Henry dons [[voyageurs]] clothing and wields paddle when anyone passes<ref>Alexander Henry, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/45/reader.html#42 "The hostility of the Indians"] ''Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories''[....] (1809), pgs. 34-5. (See Henry's [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/45/reader.html#49 welcome] by Ojibwe chief Minavavana, and [https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/fra/accueil/notice?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3723943 "A Plan of the Straits of St. Mary, and Michilimakinac, to shew the Situation & Importance of the two Westernmost Settlements of Canada for the Fur Trade"]) Accessed 24 March 2022</ref>

[[Voyageurs#Food|Voyageurs eat]] mashed [[Maize#Nutritional value|maize]] on canoe trips, but for over-wintering, Henry finds high grain and meat prices make him "very industrious in [[Ice fishing|fishing]]"<ref>Alexander Henry, [http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/45/reader.html#61 "Trout are taken"] ''Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories''[....] (1809), pgs. 53-5. Accessed 24 March 2022</ref>

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