Events

• First scientific report on the North Pacific fur seal
  Fur seal
  Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds in the Otariidae family. One species, the northern fur seal inhabits the North Pacific, while seven species in the Arctocephalus genus are found primarily in the Southern hemisphere...
  
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• First Fort Paskoya
  Fort Paskoya
  Fort Paskoya or Paskoyac or Pasquia was a French fort and trading post near the mouth of the Saskatchewan River. Along with Fort Bourbon, Fort Dauphin and Fort La Reine is was built by the Vérendryes to control the chain of lakes west of Lake Winnipeg...
  
   built by La Vérendrye at Cedar Lake.

Births

• Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra
  Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra
  Esteban José Martínez Fernández y Martínez de la Sierra, or simply Esteban José Martínez was a Spanish navigator and explorer, native of Seville...
  
  , naval officer (d.1798
  1798 in Canada
  -Events:*David Thompson travels to Mandan villages and charts headwaters of Mississippi River*A new fur trading company is formed to compete with the North West Company...
  
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• Benjamin Frobisher
  Benjamin Frobisher
  Benjamin Frobisher was born in England, the son of Joseph Frobisher and Rachel Hargrave and immigrated to Canada about 1763...
  
  , fur-trader (d. 1787
  1787 in Canada
  -Events:*HBC David Thompson wintered with Piegans on Bow River.*Prince William Henry lands at Quebec.*At an investigation into judicial abuses, it is stated that one judge takes wine to excess, before taking his seat on the Bench; and that another habitually disregards the pertinent French law and...
  
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Deaths