1769 in Canada

Events from the year 1769 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

Governors

• Governor of the Province of Quebec: Guy Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: Michael Francklin
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: John Byron
• Governor of St. John's Island: Walter Patterson

Events

• The American colonies begin their westward expansion, settling Tennessee.
• Prince Edward Island becomes a separate colony from Nova Scotia.
• April 20 – Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa is killed by a Kaskaskia Indian in Illinois.

Births

• March 12: Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet, army officer and colonial administrator (d.1843)
• August 16: Peter Fidler, fur trader, mapmaker, explorer (d.1822)
• October 6: Isaac Brock, military commander, administrator of Upper Canada (d.1812)

Full date unknown

• Francis Gore, colonial administrator (d.1852)

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