Events from the year 1737 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • French Monarch: Louis XV
  • British and Irish Monarch: George II

Governors

  • Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois
  • Colonial Governor of Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Lawrence Armstrong
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville

Events

  • Marguerite d'Youville (Born Varennes, France October 15, 1701 Died December 28, 1771) and some friends in Montreal, begin taking in the poor and educating abandoned children.

Births

Full date unknown

  • Matonabbee, leading Indian (d.1782)

Deaths

  • 29 September - Joseph Adams, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. (b. 1700)

References