Significant Historical Happenings By Year: 1660-62.
- -1660-
- Radisson and Groseilliers arrive Montreal with a flotilla of canoes "so great a number of boats that did almost cover the whole River." This business the French governor sought to tax, and so these successful French traders went elsewhere.
- May 29, 1660: The English commonwealth, after a period of eleven years, came to an end with the "restoration" of Charles II to the English throne.
- In 1660, Sir Thomas Temple dies and devises Nova Scotia to his nephew, John Nelson; John Nelson, in turn, in 1730, sells his rights to Samuel Waldo of Boston.
