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• Governors
• Events
• Births
• Full date unknown
• References

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Events from the year 1769 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III ^[1]

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)

References