1913_in_Canada
1913 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1913
Events from the year 1913 in Canada.
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Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
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
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- March 27 – Le Droit first published in French
- April 17 – 1913 Alberta general election: Arthur Sifton's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
- June 2 – The High Level Bridge (Edmonton) opens, with two lanes of traffic on the lower deck, and two streetcar tracks and one CPR track on the upper deck
- November 7 – November 8 – A storm on the Great Lakes sinks some thirty-four ships
- November 17 – The National Transcontinental Railway is completed
- March 1 – The Quebec Bulldogs win their second Stanley Cup.
- March 7 – The Victoria Senators win their first Pacific Coast Hockey Association championship.
- November 29 – The Hamilton Tigers win their first 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 - The Winnipeg Hockey Club defeats the Edmonton Eskimos to win the 1913 Allan Cup.
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- 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
New Books
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)[2]
- 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)
- Rose Goldblatt, administrator, pianist and teacher (d. 1997)
- 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)
- 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)
With Canada's promises unfulfilled, Premier calls for fair shake for Prince Edward Island[3]
Editorial claims modern woman has best prospects in western Canada [4]
"Few people[...]held life so lightly as these coast dwellers" - the "savage Indian" stereotype applied to Coast Salish people[5]
Ambition and Canadian propaganda and incentives are motivating U.S. farmers to move to Canada (though some return) [6]
With "slums as bad as any in the world,[...]the Montrealer takes little interest in the affair of his city." [7]
House committee on pollution warned of widespread water-borne bacteria (especially typhoid) and general lack of water treatment[8]
Nova Scotian looks back on his 12-year-old self fighting Fenians [9]
Photo: Kwakwaka'wakw carving, Dsawadi, Knight Inlet, B.C. (later "collected" for museum) [10]
- "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- Lentz, Harris M. (4 February 2014). 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
- Calgary Women's Press Club, Special Opportunity Number Western Standard Illustrated Weekly, Vol. III, No. 13 (June 12, 1913; unpaginated). Accessed 26 February 2020
- Edward S. Curtis, "Introduction" The North American Indian, Vol 9 (1913), pg. xi. Accessed 5 September 2020
- 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
- George Hambleton, "What's the Matter With Montreal?" Saturday Mirror, No. 1 (February 1, 1913), pg. 5. Accessed 26 February 2020
- "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
- P.F. Lawson, "A Fenian Reminiscence" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (May 22, 1913). Accessed 26 February 2020
- William A. Newcombe, "Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) Ceremonial Carving at Dsawadi" (1913). Accessed 24 May 2020