1772 in Canada
Events from the year 1772 in Canada.
| Years in Canada: | 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 | 
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| Decades: | 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s | 
| Years: | 1769 1770 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 | 
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Incumbents
    
    
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- Samuel Hearne explores Coppermine River to Arctic Ocean.
 - HBC Mathey Cocking, to Blackfeet country west of Eagle Hills.
 - The Hudson's Bay Company opens Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan River.
 - James Cook and George Vancouver explore the northwest coast of America.
 - The Yorkshire emigration begins with the arrival of 62 passengers aboard The Duke of York.
 
Deaths
    
- September 30: Jean-Louis Le Loutre, priest, Spiritan, and missionary (born 1709)
 
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