1610s in Canada

Events from the 1610s in Canada.

Events

1610–11: The English explorer Henry Hudson, in Dutch service, continues the fruitless search for a passage to Asia.
1610: Henry Hudson, in service of the Netherlands, explores the river named for him. Hudson explores Hudson Bay in spite of a mutinous crew. Manhattan Indians attack his ship. Mahican people make peaceful contact, and a lucrative fur trade begins.
1610: Étienne Brûlé lives among Huron and is first European to see Lakes Ontario, Huron, and Superior.
1611: Champlain builds fur post at Montreal.
1612: Champlain is named Governor of New France.
1613: Port Royal sacked by Samuel Argall and his pirates from Virginia.
1613: St. John's, Newfoundland is founded.
1614: Franciscan Recollet friars arrive to convert the Indians.
1615: French Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Canada.
1615: Champlain attacks Onondaga villages with the help of a Huron war party, this turning the Iroquois League against the French.
1616–20: Smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River.
1617: Louis Hebert, an apothecary who had stayed at Port Royal twice, brings his wife and children to Quebec, thus becoming the first true habitant.