1777 in Canada

Events from the year 1777 in Canada.

Incumbents

July 4 – Near Fort Ticonderoga, General Burgoyne offers condonement if colonists lay down their arms.
September 19 – General Burgoyne's Indian and French allies desert at the battle of Stillwater.
October 16 – Articles of Capitulation of 5,782 British, under Burgoyne are written.
October 17 – Though aware of approaching relief, Burgoyne, having promised to capitulate, and fearing annihilation by a threatened attack, signs the capitulation. During its first session the Canadian Council passes sixteen ordinances, adopts English Commercial law, and constitutes itself a Court of Appeal, with final resort to the Privy Council in England.

In the House of Lords, Lord Camden declares: "If I were an American, I should resist to the last such manifest exertions of tyranny, violence and injustice."
David Thompson enters Grey Coat School