1770 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

  Governors

• Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Lord William Campbell
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Byron
• Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson

  Events

• December – Samuel Hearne departs on his third voyage of discovery
• The city of Saint-Eustache, Quebec is established

  Births

• April 7 – William Wordsworth, in Cockermouth, England
• April 30 – David Thompson, fur trader, surveyor and map-maker
• June 4 – William Carson, in Kirkcudbright, Scotland
• October 23 – George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie

  Full date unknown

• William Allan, near Huntly, Scotland

  Deaths

• February 12 – Christopher Middleton, Hudson's Bay Company captain