1741 in Canada

• French Monarch: Louis XV[1]
• British and Irish Monarch: George II[2]

• First Fort Dauphin, was built near Winnipegosis, Manitoba.
• Vitus Bering, in service of Russia, reaches Alaska; Russians soon trade with natives for sea otter pelts.
• Alexei Chirikof, with Bering expedition, sights land on July 15; the Europeans had found Alaska.
• Russians Vitus Bering and Aleksi Cherikov 'discover' Alaska and bring back fur skins (Bering shipwrecked on return and died); the Fur Rush is on.
• The lives of early Alaskans remained basically unchanged for thousands of years, until Russian sailors, led by Danish explorer Vitus Bering, sighted Alaska's mainland in 1741.
• The Russians were soon followed by British, Spanish, and American adventurers. But it was the Russians who stayed to trade for the pelts of sea otters and other fur-bearing animals, interjecting their own culture and staking a strong claim on Alaska. Once the fur trade declined, however, the Russians lost interest in this beautiful though largely unexplored land.
• Fort Bourbon established near present-day Grand Rapids, Manitoba.
• François-Josué de la Corne Dubreuil appointed commandant at Fort Kaministiquia.

• 6 June - Denis Viger, businessman and politician
• 19 September - Jacob Jordan, businessman and politician
• 3 November - Joshua Upham, lawyer, judge and politician
• 6 November - Joseph-Laurent Bertrand, priest

Sloop "Sarah" (Abraham Brasher, captain) lands in Newfoundland with enslaved people purchased in New York[3]

Wanting new trade and discoveries, Hudson's Bay Company countermands Chief Factor Richard Norton's order to stop search for Northwest Passage[4]

Captain seeking Northwest Passage ordered to "cultivate a Friendship and Alliance" with Indigenous people living by "Western American Ocean"[5]

Hudson's Bay Company states objections to Capt. Middleton visiting their forts while searching for Northwest Passage[6]

After much fruitless proselytizing, Jesuit missionary converts everyone at "Mission of l'Assomption among the Hurons" (Note: "savages" used)[7]

Haudenosaunee who bring enslaved Chickasaw to Kahnawake no longer burn them, but adopt and convert them (Note: "savages" used)[8]

Board of Trade warned that Acadians smuggle commodities (sometimes "whole droves of Cattle") to Île-Royale via many east coast harbours[9]

Nova Scotia Council "follow the Antient laws & Customs" of Acadians, except where royal rights or British laws are involved[10]

Council president Paul Mascarene says priests cannot govern "the Temporall by the Spirituall, Incroaching [and] Endeavouring" to rule parishes[11]

Among many warnings, Mascarene says if Acadians devalue British leniency, "we shall find a way to make them repent [slighting] so good an offer"[12]

Council secretary's widow needs his debtors to pay up so she can buy merchandise in Boston to sell and pay his debts[13]

New York lieutenant governor calls for funding of new chapel for Kanien’kéhà:ka, as requested by their sachems[14]

Deed by which Seneca sachems sell large tract of land in Albany County, New York to Crown[15]

Example of music (notes and lyrics) of Indigenous people in Nova Scotia[16]