1777 in Canada

Events from the year 1777 in Canada.

• Monarch: George III^[1]

• Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Mariot Arbuthnot
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Montagu
• Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson

• 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.

• 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

• June 20 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, bishop of Montreal (d.1840)