1708 in Canada
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Events from the year 1708 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Governors
Births
- Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye born December 6 of this year. Already in ill health, he died while travelling from Fort Maurepas (Canada) on the Red River to Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods. He was buried near the junction of the Red and Roseau rivers (died 1736).[7]
Deaths
- May 6 - François de Laval, 1st Bishop of Quebec (born 1623)[8]