Events from the year 1705 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • French Monarch: Louis XIV
  • English, Scottish and Irish Monarch: Anne

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
  • Governor of Acadia: Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
  • Governor of Plaisance: Daniel d'Auger de Subercase

Events

  • Jacques Raudot becomes co-Intendant of New France with his son Antoine-Denis Raudot.
  • Anthony Beale was appointed governor of the Hudson's Bay Company for Canada, replacing John Fullartine.

Deaths

  • Louis Hennepin, Récollet missionary, explorer (born 1626)

References