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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