Events from the year 1770 in Canada.
Incumbents Monarch: George III
Governors Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton Governor of Nova Scotia: Lord William Campbell Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Byron Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson
Events December – Samuel Hearne departs on his third voyage of discovery. The city of Saint-Eustache, Quebec is established.
Births
April 7 – William Wordsworth, in Cockermouth, England (d.1850) April 30 – David Thompson, fur trader, surveyor and map-maker (d.1857) June 4 (baptised) – William Carson, in Kirkcudbright, Scotland (d.1843) October 23 – George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie (d.1838)
Full date unknown William Allan, near Huntly, Scotland (d.1853)
Deaths February 12 – Christopher Middleton, Hudson's Bay Company captain
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