Events from the year 1710 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • French Monarch: Louis XIV
  • British and Irish Monarch: Anne

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Samuel Vetch
  • Governor of Plaisance: Philippe Pastour de Costebelle

Events

  • The English recapture Acadia, this time permanently, and rename it Nova Scotia.
  • Francis Nicholson captures Port Royal for England.
  • The English take Port Royal and name it Annapolis Royal.
  • Three Mohawk chiefs and one Mahican are received in Queen Anne's court in England as the Four Kings of the New World.

Births

  • October 7 - François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil, a soldier and trader. (died 1753)
  • July 23 - Jonathan Belcher, lawyer, chief justice, and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia (died 1776)

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