| Years in Canada: | 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 |
| Centuries: | 17th century · 18th century · 19th century |
| Decades: | 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s |
| Years: | 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 |
Events from the year 1777 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
- 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.
Full date unknown
- 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, bishop of Montreal (d.1840)