1777 in Canada

"See also:"
1776 in Canada,
other events of 1777,
1778 in Canada and the
list of 'years in Canada'.

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Events

* July 4 - Near Fort Ticonderoga, General Burgoyne offers condonement if colonists lay down their arms.
* September 19 - General Burgoyne's Indian and French allies desert at the battle of Stillwater.
* October 16 - Articles of Capitulation of 5,782 British, under Burgoyne are written.
* October 17 - Though aware of approaching relief, Burgoyne, having promised to capitulate, and fearing annihilation by a threatened attack, signs the capitulation. During its first session the Canadian Council passes sixteen ordinances, adopts English Commercial law, and constitutes itself a Court of Appeal, with final resort to the Privy Council in England.
* In the House of Lords, Lord Camden declares: "If I were an American, I should resist to the last such manifest exertions of tyranny, violence and injustice."
* David Thompson enters Grey Coat School

Births

June 20 - Jean-Jacques Lartigue, first Roman Catholic bishop of Montreal

Deaths