1717 in Canada
Events from the year 1717 in Canada.
Incumbents
Governors
- Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
- Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Michel de Lepinay
- Governor of Nova Scotia: Thomas Caulfeild then Samuel Vetch then Richard Philipps then John Doucett
- Governor of Placentia: Samuel Gledhill
Events
- Fort Kaministiquia was founded by French merchants to be the first in a series of forts reaching westward to expand trade and seek a route to the western sea.
- Fort Prince of Wales founded by the Hudson's Bay Company,
Births
- January 29 - Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, army officer
- November 9 - Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye, French Canadian fur trader and explorer.