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Events from the year 1701 in Canada.
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- The Peace of Montreal signed: peace treaty between the Iroquois Confederacy and the French. Considered one of the major events in Canada's history, sometimes called the "great peace."[11]
- Detroit, Michigan founded as Fort Pontchartrain du détroit by Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac.[12]
- War of the Spanish Succession begins in Europe; spreads to North America (Queen Anne's War) in 1702.[13][14]
- October 15 - Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, founder of the "Grey Nuns" order; died 1771; she was beatified in 1959, the first Canadian-born saint.[15]
- April 4 - Guillaume Couture, diplomat in New France (born 1618).[16][17]
Hundreds of English fishers settled in Newfoundland squeeze out fishing ships, while New England merchants undercut English trade[18]
New York official says Five Nations resent that English colonies did not join them in recent costly war against French[19]
English cajole Onondaga chief sachem not to fear French, just before Five Nations and other Indigenous sign Great Peace of Montreal[20]
New York lieutenant-governor meets with Five Nations leaders to renew their Covenant Chain alliance against French[21]
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