| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1600 | april | Acadia French colony | Pierre de Chavin, sieur de Tonnetuit | 
| 1602 | december |  | Aymar de Chaste | 
| 1603 | 8 november |  | Pierre du Guast, sieur de Monts | 
| 1605 | 27 july | French colony of New France | Jean de Biencourt, sieur de Poutrincourt, baron de St. Just | 
| 1611 |  |  | Charles de Biencourt de Saint-Just | 
| 1621 | 10 september | Scottish occupation | Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling and Viscount of Canada | 
| 1632 | 12 june | French colony of New France | Isaac de Rasilly | 
| 1635 | november |  | Charles de Menou, sieur d'Aulnay Charnisay | 
| 1650 | 24 may |  | Charles de Menou, sieur d'Aulnay Charnisay | 
| 1654 | 27 july | UK occupation | John Leverett | 
| 1657 |  |  | Sir Thomas Temple | 
| 1670 | 2 september | French colony of New France | Héctor d'Andigé de Grandfontaine | 
| 1673 | 5 may |  | Jacques de Chambly | 
| 1674 | august | Dutch occupation | Jurriaen Aernoutsz | 
| 1675 | august |  | Cornelis Steenwyck | 
| 1678 |  | French colony of New France | Michel Le Neuf de la Vallières de  Blaubassin | 
| 1684 | 10 april |  | François-Marie de Perrot | 
| 1687 | 1 march |  | Louis-Alexandre des Friches, chevalier Robineau de Menneval | 
| 1690 | 11 may | UK occupation | Sir William Phips | 
| 1691 | 26 november | French colony of New France | Joseph Robinau, sieur de Villebon | 
| 1700 | 5 july |  | Sébastien de Villieu | 
| 1701 | 29 july |  | Jacques-François Monbeton Brouillan de St. André | 
| 1705 | 22 september |  | Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonneventure | 
| 1706 | 10 april |  | Daniel d'Auger, sieur de Subercase | 
| YEAR | DATE | EVENT | GOVERNOR | 
| 1710 | 13 october | UK colony | Samuel Vetch (I) | 
| 1712 | 20 october |  | Francis Nicholson | 
| 1715 | 20 january |  | Sameul Vetch (II) | 
| 1717 | 17 august |  | Richard Philipps | 
| 1749 | 9 may |  | Eward Cornwallis | 
| 1752 | 3 august |  | Peregrine Thomas Hopson | 
| 1756 | 7 january |  | Charles Lawrence | 
| 1760 | 19 october |  | Jonathan Belcher | 
| 1763 | 26 september |  | Montague Wilmont | 
| 1766 | 23 may |  | William Campbell, Earl Campbell | 
| 1773 | 8 october |  | Francis Legge | 
| 1782 | 29 july |  | Sir Andrew Snape Hammond | 
| 1782 | 19 october |  | John Parr (I) | 
| 1783 | 24 february |  | Edmund Fanning | 
| 1786 | 20 may |  | John Parr (II) | 
| 1791 | 25 november |  | Richard Bulkeley | 
| 1792 | 14 may |  | Sir John Wentworth | 
| 1808 | 13 april |  | Sir George Prevost | 
| 1811 | 25 august |  | Alexander Croke | 
| 1811 | 16 october |  | Sir John Coape Sherbrooke | 
| 1816 | 27 june |  | George Stracey Smyth | 
| 1816 | 24 october |  | George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie | 
| 1820 | 1 june |  | Sir James Kempt | 
| 1828 | 23 august |  | Thomas N. Jeffrey (I) | 
| 1828 | 28 november |  | Sir Peregrine Maitland | 
| 1834 | 24 january |  | Thomas N. Jeffrey (II) | 
| 1834 | 2 july |  | Sir Colin Campbell | 
| 1840 | 30 september |  | Lucius Bentinck Carey, Viscount Falkland | 
| 1846 | 2 august |  | Sir Jeremiah Dickson | 
| 1846 | 29 august |  | Sir John Harvey | 
| 1852 | 22 march |  | John Bazalgette | 
| 1852 | 5 august |  | Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant | 
| 1858 | 15 february |  | George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave | 
| 1863 | 17 september |  | Charles Hastings Doyle (I) | 
| 1864 | 22 june |  | Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell | 
| 1865 | 28 september |  | Charles Hastings Doyle (II) | 
| 1865 | 8 november |  | Sir William Fenwick Williams | 
| 1867 | 1 july | 3^ Canada provence |