1913 in Canada
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Events from the year 1913 in Canada.
Incumbents
Federal government
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George H. V. Bulyea
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Thomas Wilson Paterson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Douglas Cameron
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Josiah Wood
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – James Drummond McGregor
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Morison Gibson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Benjamin Rogers
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – François Langelier
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – George William Brown
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton
- Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
- Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
- Premier of New Brunswick – James Kidd Flemming
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – John Alexander Mathieson
- Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
- Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott
Events
- March 27 – Le Droit first published in French
- April 17 – 1913 Alberta general election: Arthur Sifton's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
- November 7 – November 8 – A storm on the Great Lakes sinks some thirty-four ships
- November 17 – The National Transcontinental Railway is completed
Sport
- March 1 – The Quebec Bulldogs win their 2nd Stanley Cup
- March 7 – The Victoria Senators win their First PCHA Championship
- November 29 – The Hamilton Tigers win their 1st Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 44 to 2 in the 5th Grey Cup played at Hamilton, Ontario's A.A.A. Grounds
Unknown date
- June – Start of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916 a scientific expedition in the Arctic Circle organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
- Laura Secord Chocolates opens
Arts and literature
New Books
Births
January to June
- January 13 – Philip Gaglardi, politician (d. 1995)
- March 11 – John Weinzweig, composer (d. 2006)
- March 24 – Émile Benoît, musician (d. 1992)
- April 4 – Jules Léger, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d. 1980)[1]
- April 24 – Violet Archer, composer, teacher, pianist, organist and percussionist (d. 2000)
- April 30 – Edith Fowke, folk song collector, author and radio presenter (d. 1996)
- May 27 – James Page Mackey, chief of Toronto Police Service (d. 2009)
- June 12 – Jean Victor Allard, general and first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1996)
- June 14 – Joe Morris, trade unionist and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (d. 1996)
- June 18 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, heart surgeon (d. 2005)
July to December
- July 6 – J. Carson Mark, mathematician who worked on development of nuclear weapons (d. 1997)
- July 16 – Woodrow Stanley Lloyd, politician and 8th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 1972)
- August 28 – Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor (d. 1995)
- September 20 – Robert Christie, actor and director (d. 1996)
- October 5 – Horace Gwynne, boxer and Olympic gold medalist (d. 2001)
- November 7 – Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, portrait sculptor (d. 2009)
- November 8 – June Havoc, actress, dancer, writer, and theater director (d. 2010)
- November 16 – Dora de Pedery-Hunt, sculptor and coin and medal designer (d. 2008)
- November 21 – Stewart McLean, politician (d. 1996)
- December 7 – Donald C. MacDonald, politician (d. 2008)
- December 12 – Clint Smith, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2009)
- December 16 – George Ignatieff, diplomat (d. 1989)
- December 27 – Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist (d. 1986)
Deaths
- March 7 – Pauline Johnson, poet, writer and performer (b. 1861)
- April 12 – Alexander Francis Macdonald, politician (b. 1818)
- April 23 – Richard William Scott, politician and Minister (b. 1826)
- May 4 – John M. Baillie, politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (b. 1847)
- July 15 – Hugh Richardson, jurist (b. 1826)
See also
Historical Documents
With Canada's promises unfulfilled, Premier calls for fair shake for Prince Edward Island [2]
Editorial claims modern woman has best prospects in western Canada [3]
"Few people[...]held life so lightly as these coast dwellers" - the "savage Indian" stereotype applied to Coast Salish people[4]
Ambition and Canadian propaganda and incentives are motivating U.S. farmers to move to Canada (though some return) [5]
With "slums as bad as any in the world,[...]the Montrealer takes little interest in the affair of his city." [6]
House committee on pollution warned of widespread water-borne bacteria (especially typhoid) and general lack of water treatment[7]
Nova Scotian looks back on his 12-year-old self fighting Fenians [8]
Photo: Kwakwaka'wakw carving, Dsawadi, Knight Inlet, B.C. (later "collected" for museum) [9]
References
- Lentz, Harris M. Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Routledge. p. 143. ISBN 978-1-134-26490-2.
- J.A. Matheson [sic], "The Island – Its Present and Future," The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 157-69. Accessed 26 February 2020 http://speeches.empireclub.org/62098/data?n=44
- Calgary Women's Press Club, Special Opportunity Number, Western Standard Illustrated Weekly, Vol. III, No. 13 (June 12, 1913; unpaginated). Accessed 26 February 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3871/5.html
- Edward S. Curtis, "Introduction," The North American Indian, Vol 9 (1913), pg. xi. Accessed 5 September 2020 https://books.google.ca/books?id=mmPi-wuMt6sC&lpg=PP5&ots=4Enq4nKjCq&dq=The%20North%20American%20Indian%2C%20Volume%209%3A%20Salishan%20Tribes%20of%20the%20Coast&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q=The%20North%20American%20Indian%2C%20Volume%209%3A%20Salishan%20Tribes%20of%20the%20Coast&f=false
- Letter of John D. Deets, Commissioner of Immigration, State of South Dakota (March 26, 1913), Letters in Response to Inquiries[...]about the Movement of American Farmers Back to the United States from the Canadian Northwest. Accessed 26 February 2020 https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4622191$6i
- George Hambleton, "What's the Matter With Montreal?" Saturday Mirror, No. 1 (February 1, 1913), pg. 5. Accessed 26 February 2020 http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3655420
- "Third Report" (May 30, 1913), Proceedings and Evidence of the Select Special Committee on the Pollution of Navigable Waters, pgs. 14-16. Accessed 15 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1202_4_1/20?r=0&s=1
- P.F. Lawson, "A Fenian Reminiscence," The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (May 22, 1913). Accessed 26 February 2020 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canbrnep/afenian.htm
- William A. Newcombe, "Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) Ceremonial Carving at Dsawadi" (1913). Accessed 24 May 2020 http://edan.si.edu/slideshow/viewer/?eadrefid=NMAI.AC.001.051_ref42
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