- 1650s in Canada
"See also:"
1640s in Canada ,
other events of the 1650s,1660s in Canada and thelist of 'years in Canada' .----
Events
* 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 onHuron s (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 Two-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
* 1650-53: Huron survivors of the Beaver Wars settle at Lorette under French protection.
* 1652:Massachusetts General Court licenses traders going from Massachusetts toAcadia .
* 1653 Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) the first school teacher in Montreal, arrives from France.
* 1654:Port Royal seized byRobert Sedgwick . He would hold on toAcadia until 1670.
* 1654-59:Pierre-Esprit Radisson , French Sieur de Groselliers, encounters a lot of tribes throughoutNew France , New England, and what is now the U.S. midwest. Adopted by a Mohawk family, who take him toHudson Bay , there he changes sides and becomes English, participates in the formation ofHudson's Bay Company , and charter ofRupert's Land to it in 1670, deftly switching country allegiances several times France-England-France-England during the process. Ends up English. Today principally remembered by a hotel named after him inMinneapolis .
* c. 1655: One of the "coureurs de bois", adventurous, unlicensedfur trade rs who want to escape company restrictions, explores west ofLake Superior .
* 1657:Sulpicians , who run missions, come to North America.
* 1658 Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) established the Congregation of Notre Dame, the first uncloistered order of nuns in North America.
* 1659: A vicar apostolic, the Jesuit-trained Bishop Francois X. de Laval-Montmorency (1623-1708) arrives in Quebec in June as vicar general of the pope to take command of the missions and to found parishes.
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