Events from the year 1777 in Canada.
Incumbents Monarch: George III
Governors Governor of the province of Quebec: Guy Carleton Governor of Nova Scotia: Mariot Arbuthnot Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Montagu Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson
Events 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.
Full date unknown 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
Births June 20 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (d.1840)
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