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1769
Events from the year 1769 in Canada.
Incumbents
Monarch: George IIIKings and Queens of Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-family/kings-queens.html#e2 aem 24 February 2021 11 August 2017
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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