Events

• Samuel Hearne
  Samuel Hearne
  Samuel Hearne was a an English explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist. He was the first European to make an overland excursion across northern Canada to the Arctic Ocean, actually Coronation Gulf, via the Coppermine River...
  
   explores Coppermine River
  Coppermine River
  The Coppermine River is a river in the North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada. It is long. It rises in Lac de Gras, a small lake near Great Slave Lake and flows generally north to Coronation Gulf, an arm of the Arctic Ocean...
  
   to Arctic Ocean
  Arctic Ocean
  The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions...
  
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• HBC
  Hudson's Bay Company
  The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...
  
   Mathey Cocking, to Blackfeet
  Blackfeet
  The Piegan Blackfeet are a tribe of Native Americans of the Algonquian language family based in Montana, having lived in this area since around 6,500 BC. Many members of the tribe live as part of the Blackfeet Nation in northwestern Montana, with population centered in Browning...
  
   country west of Eagle Hills.
• The Hudson's Bay Company opens Cumberland House
  Cumberland House
  Cumberland House was a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in London, England. It was built in the 1760s by Matthew Brettingham for Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany and was originally called York House...
  
   on the Saskatchewan River
  Saskatchewan River
  The Saskatchewan River is a major river in Canada, approximately long, flowing roughly eastward across Saskatchewan and Manitoba to empty into Lake Winnipeg...
  
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• James Cook
  James Cook
  Captain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...
  
   and George Vancouver
  George Vancouver
  Captain George Vancouver RN was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon...
  
   explore the northwest coast of America.
• The Yorkshire emigration
  Yorkshire Emigration to Nova Scotia
  Migration from Yorkshire to Nova Scotia occurred between 1772 and 1775 and involved an approximate one thousand migrants from mainly Yorkshire, England arriving in Nova Scotia to settle the colony some years following the expulsion of its Acadian population....
  
   begins with the arrival of 62 passengers aboard The Duke of York.

Deaths

• September 30: Jean-Louis Le Loutre
  Jean-Louis Le Loutre
  Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre was a Catholic priest and missionary for the Paris Foreign Missions Society...
  
  , priest, Spiritan, and missionary (b.1709
  1709 in Canada
  -Births:* September 7 Dr. Samuel Johnson born in Lichfield, Staffordshire. * September 26 - Jean-Louis Le Loutre, priest, Spiritan, and missionary -Deaths:...
  
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