1640s In Canada ,
Other Events Of The 1650s ,
1660s In Canada and the
List Of 'years In Canada' .
- 1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee ( Iroquois ) make war on Huron s (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650-51), Erie (1653-56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680-84), and members of the Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to Two-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
- 1650-53: Huron survivors of the Beaver Wars settle at Lorette under French protection.
- 1652: Massachusetts General Court licenses traders going from Massachusetts to Acadia .
- 1653 Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) the first school teacher in Montreal, arrives from France.
- 1654: Port Royal seized by Robert Sedgwick . He would hold on to Acadia until 1670.
- 1654-59: Pierre-Esprit Radisson , French Sieur de Groselliers, encounters a lot of tribes throughout New France , New England, and what is now the U.S. midwest. Adopted by a Mohawk family, who take him to Hudson Bay , there he changes sides and becomes English, participates in the formation of Hudson's Bay Company , and charter of Rupert's Land to it in 1670, deftly switching country allegiances several times France-England-France-England during the process. Ends up English. Today principally remembered by a hotel named after him in Minneapolis .
- c. 1655: One of the ''coureurs de bois'', adventurous, unlicensed Fur Trade rs who want to escape company restrictions, explores west of Lake Superior .
- 1657: Sulpicians , who run missions, come to North America.
- 1658 Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) established the Congregation of Notre Dame, the first uncloistered order of nuns in North America.
- 1659: A vicar apostolic, the Jesuit-trained Bishop Francois X. De Laval-Montmorency (1623-1708) arrives in Quebec in June as vicar general of the pope to take command of the missions and to found parishes.
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