1903 in Canada
| Years in Canada: | 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 |
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| Years: | 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 |
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Events from the year 1903 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat (until April 19) then William Mortimer Clark (from April 21)
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior (until June 1) then Richard McBride
- Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
- Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
- Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon – Zachary Taylor Wood (acting) (until March 4) then Frederick Tennyson Congdon
Lieutenant governors
Events
April 29: The Frank Slide occurs
- March 22 – Because of a drought, the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
- March 1 – Henri Bourassa's Ligue nationaliste is founded
- March 25 – The Alaska Boundary Dispute is settled in the United States' favour
- April 29 – The Frank Slide, The most destructive landslide in Canadian history, kills 70 in Frank, District of Alberta, North-West Territories
- June 1 – Richard McBride becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing Edward Prior
- June 19 – Regina, District of Assiniboia, North-West Territories, is incorporated as a city
- June 24 – Ignace Bourget Monument unveiled
- July 1 – Ray Knight builds the Raymond Stampede rodeo arena and rodeo grandstands in Raymond, District of Alberta, North-West Territories, which are the first ever built in the world.
See also
Births
January to June
- January 3 – Charles Foulkes, general and first Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff (d.1969)
- February 15 – Sarto Fournier, politician and mayor of Montreal (d.1980)
- February 16 – Georges-Henri Lévesque, Dominican priest and sociologist (d.2000)
- February 22 – Morley Callaghan, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television and radio personality (d.1990)
- February 25 – King Clancy, ice hockey player (d.1986)
- June 10 – Alexander Wallace Matheson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1976)
- June 23 – Paul Martin Sr., politician (d.1992)
- June 30 – Donald Ferguson Brown, politician, barrister and lawyer
July to December
- July 16 – Carmen Lombardo, singer and composer (d.1971)
- July 30
- Harold Ballard, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs (d.1990)
- Alan Macnaughton, politician (d.1999)
- August 31 – Helen Battle, zoologist
- October 11 – David Turner, soccer player
- December 8 – Louis-Marie Régis, philosopher, theologian, scholar and member of the Dominican Order (d.1988)
Deaths
Donald Farquharson
Oliver Mowat
- January 7 – Robert Atkinson Davis, businessman, politician and 4th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
- July 2 – Oliver Mowat, politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario and 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1820)
- April 30 – Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (b.1831)
- May 6 – Samuel Bridgeland, politician (b. 1847)
- May 8 – David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist (b.1831)
- June 26 – Donald Farquharson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1834)
- November 12 – William Doran, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (b.1834)
- November 14 – John Andrew Davidson, politician (b.1852)
Historical Documents
Disastrous landslide at Frank, Alberta described [1]
Saint John Globe correspondent covers canoe trip down Saint John River above Fredericton, N.B. [2]
Halifax Morning Chronicle correspondent provides humorous profile of New Westminster, B.C. [3]
Gold, fraud and foxes in news from New Bay, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland [4]
Despite late planting and her husband working off-farm, newly immigrated woman and sons bring in successful harvest in Saskatchewan [5]
Explorer's last words as he starves to death on Labrador expedition that his wife later completes [6]
References
- Department of the Interior, Dominion of Canada, "Description of the Slide," Report of the Great Landslide at Frank, Alta.; 1903 (1904), pgs. 6-8. Accessed 23 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2701/7.html
- "Canoeing on the River; Excitements and Pleasures of a Trip Down the Upper St. John," Saint John Globe (August 1, 1903). Accessed 23 January 2020 http://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/Canoeing/Default.aspx?culture=en-CA&PG=1
- Peter McLaren MacDonald, "Royal City of the West," Letters from the Canadian West (1903), pgs. 33-5. Accessed 23 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2696/36.html
- "New Bay," St. John's Free Press (October 20, 1903). Accessed 23 January 2020 http://www.rootsweb.com/~cannf/nd_freepress1903.htm (scroll down to "foxes")
- Canadian Pacific Railway, Women's Work in Western Canada (1906), pgs. 20-1. Accessed 23 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2932/21.html
- Mina Benson Hubbard, A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (1908). Accessed 23 January 2020 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4266/pg4266.html (scroll down to "Sunday, October 18th")
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