1760 in Canada

Events from the year 1760 in Canada.

Incumbents

French Monarch: Louis XV
British and Irish Monarch: George II, then George III

Governors

Events

Sunday April 20 – Seven thousand French troops start to recapture Quebec.
Monday April 28 – Murray's 7,714 troops retire to the Citadel, after fighting the Canadiens outside the walls of Quebec. The French prepare to besiege.
Friday May 9 – The belligerents, of each nationality, expect a fleet bringing troops and supplies. An approaching frigate proves to be British.
Thursday May 15 – Two more British war-ships arrive. The British win a naval battle near Quebec.
Saturday May 17 – The French raise the siege of Quebec.
Sunday 6 July – Commencement of the Montreal Campaign by General Jeffery Amherst
Saturday September 6 – Amherst arrives at Montreal.
September 6 to September 7 – A council of war, at Montreal, favors capitulation.
Monday September 8 – Amherst's, Murray's, and Haviland's commands, around Montreal, are about 17,000.
The articles of capitulation are agreeable to the French, except that they do not concede "all the honors of war" or "perpetual neutrality of Canadiens."
De Levis threatens to retire to St. Helen's Island and fight to the last; but the Governor orders him to disarm.
Fortress Louisbourg demolished by the British.
Fall of Montreal and surrender of Great Lakes and Ohio Valley French forts to English. Lord Jeffery Amherst starts a "get tough with Indians" policy, including the first biological warfare --smallpox-infested blankets. Amherst granted some Seneca lands to his officers. Odawa chief Pontiac organize a resistance preaching return to traditional Indian customs. The 1761 draft Proclamation, and the Royal Proclamation of 1763 were part of the English Crown's attempt to mollify the Indians. Neither proclamation of undisturbed Indian lands was followed by settlers or the Crown.
The British Conquest. General James Murray is appointed first British military governor of Quebec.

Births

November 10 – William Black, Methodist minister

Deaths

January 22 : Paul Mascarene, governor of Nova Scotia