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1710 in Canada
Events from the year
1710
in
Canada
.
Incumbents
French Monarch:
Louis XIV
British and Irish Monarch:
Anne
Governors
Governor General of New France:
Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
Colonial Governor of Louisiana:
Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
Governor of Nova Scotia:
Samuel Vetch
Governor of Plaisance:
Philippe Pastour de Costebelle
Events
The English
recapture
Acadia
, this time permanently, and rename it
Nova Scotia
.
Francis Nicholson
captures
Port Royal
for
England
.
The
English
take
Port
Royal and name it
Annapolis Royal
.
Three
Mohawk
chiefs and one
Mahican
are received in
Queen Anne's
court in England as the
Four Kings of the New World
.
Births
October 7
-
François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil
, a soldier and
trader
.
July 23
-
Jonathan Belcher
, lawyer,
chief justice
, and
lieutenant governor
of Nova Scotia
Deaths