- 1640s in Canada
"See also:"
1630s in Canada ,
other events of the 1640s,1650s in Canada and thelist of 'years in Canada' .----
Events
* c. 1640: Beavers and
otter s nearly exterminated inIroquois country. To expand territory, Iroquois launch decades-long "Beaver Wars" againstHuron ,Algonqiun and Themselves
* 1640:Lake Erie discovered.
*May 17 ,1642 : The trade settlement atMontreal is founded by theSieur de Maisonneuve .
* 1644: Second Powhatan Confederacy uprising againstJamestown, Virginia ; its leader, Opechancanough, dies in captivity.
* 1644 Jeanne Mance (Baptized Langres, France November 12, 1606 Died June 18, 1673) opens Hotel-Dieu, the first hospital in North America.
* 1645-63: Under the proprietorship of Richelieu's company's colonial agent, the Community of Habitants, the new French colony takes shape along the St. Lawrence.
* 1648-49: After the Iroquois brutally ravage Huron country and disperse the Huron nation north of the St. Lawrence, they turn againstNew France itself.
* 1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650-51), Erie (1653-56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680-84), and members of theMahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to 2-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
* 1649: Attacks by the Iroquois disperse the Huron; disrupts fur trade over the next fifteen years.
* 1649: TheJesuit fatherJean de Brébeuf ismartyr ed during Iroquois raids on the Hurons at St-Ignace (March 16 ).
* 1649: The Jesuit missionaries atSainte-Marie among the Hurons abandon the mission, burning it to the ground and taking refuge at Christian Island (June 16 )
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