Events from the year 1765 in Canada.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: George III

Governors

  • Governor of the Province of Quebec: James Murray
  • Governor of Nova Scotia: Montague Wilmot
  • Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Hugh Palliser

Events

  • 18 May – Fire destroys a large part of the town of Montreal, Quebec.
  • The Stamp Act increases discontent. A Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City to protest the Act.
  • Reserve system in Canada begins with the provision of a tract of land for the Maliseet tribe.

Births

  • April 6 – Paschal Chagnon (d. 1825)
  • May 15 – Dominique Ducharme (d. 1853)
  • July 9 – Étienne Duchesnois (d. 1826)
  • August 3 – Étienne-Claude Lagueux (d. 1842)
  • September 15 – Jacques Archambault (d. 1851)
  • October 10 – Nicolas-Gaspard Boisseau (d. 1842)
  • Unknown – Alexander Henry the younger (d. 1814)
  • Unknown – John Brownell (d. 1809)

Deaths

  • July 4 – Claude-Godefroy Coquart, missionary (born 1706)

References