1883 in Canada
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Events from the year 1883 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor General â John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (until October 23) then Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
- Prime Minister â John A. Macdonald
- Chief Justice â William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
- Parliament â 5th (from 8 February)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Clement Francis Cornwall
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Robert Duncan Wilmot
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â Adams George Archibald (until July 4) then Matthew Henry Richey
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â John Beverley Robinson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Thomas Heath Haviland
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Théodore Robitaille
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia â Robert Beaven (until January 29) then William Smithe
- Premier of Manitoba â John Norquay
- Premier of New Brunswick â Daniel Lionel Hanington (until March 3) then Andrew George Blair
- Premier of Nova Scotia â William Thomas Pipes
- Premier of Ontario â Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â William Wilfred Sullivan
- Premier of Quebec â Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
Events
- January 23 â Manitoba election
- January 29 â William Smithe becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Robert Beaven
- February 27 â Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority
- August 31 â The Calgary Herald publishes its first issue
- November 18 â Canada adopts Standard Time
- December 1 â Regina officially declared a town.
Full date unknown
- Andrew Blair becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Daniel Hanington
- Augusta Stowe, daughter of Emily Stowe, is the first woman graduated by the Toronto Medical School.
- The Toronto Women's Suffrage Association replaces the Literary Club of 1876.
- Nickel-copper ore is discovered at Murray Mine in Sudbury during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).
- Medicine Hat is settled by European Canadians when the CPR crosses the South Saskatchewan River.
Births
January to June
- January 30 â Mountenay Du Val, conservationist
- February 28 â Fernand Rinfret, politician (d.1939)
- March 4 â Sam Langford, boxer (d.1956)
- March 5 â Marius Barbeau, ethnographer and folklorist (d.1969)
- March 25 â Talbot Papineau, lawyer and soldier (d.1917)
- April 18 â Isabel Meighen, wife of Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1985)
- June 22 â John Bracken, politician and 11th Premier of Manitoba (d.1969)
July to December
- August 7 â Gordon Sidney Harrington, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1943)
- October 2 â Robert Boyle, physicist
- November 24 â William Henry Fenton, Ontario politician (d. 1972)
- November 30 â James Garfield Gardiner, politician, Minister and Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1962)
- December 27 â Cyrus S. Eaton, investment banker, businessman and philanthropist (d.1979)
Deaths
- June 18 â François Norbert Blanchet, missionary (b.1795)
- June 26 â Sir Edward Sabine, soldier and scientist (b.1788)
- June 30 â Albert James Smith, politician and Minister (b.1822)
- August 14 â James Cockburn, politician (b.1819)
- August 16 â Richard Alleyn, lawyer, judge, educator and politician (b.1835)