1903 in Canada
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Events from the year 1903 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
- Monarch â Edward VII[1]
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â Daniel Hunter McMillan
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â Alfred Gilpin Jones
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â Oliver Mowat (until April 19) then William Mortimer Clark (from April 21)
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Peter Adolphus McIntyre
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â Louis-Amable Jetté
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia â Edward Gawler Prior (until June 1) then Richard McBride
- Premier of Manitoba â Rodmond Roblin
- Premier of New Brunswick â Lemuel John Tweedie
- Premier of Nova Scotia â George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario â George William Ross
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â Arthur Peters
- Premier of Quebec â Simon-Napoléon Parent
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon â Zachary Taylor Wood (acting) (until March 4) then Frederick Tennyson Congdon
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
- March 22 â Because of a drought, the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
- March 1 â Henri Bourassa's Ligue nationaliste is founded
- March 25 â The Alaska Boundary Dispute is settled in the United States' favour
- April 29 â The Frank Slide, The most destructive landslide in Canadian history, kills 70 in Frank, District of Alberta, North-West Territories
- June 1 â Richard McBride becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing Edward Prior
- June 19 â Regina, District of Assiniboia, North-West Territories, is incorporated as a city
- June 24 â Ignace Bourget Monument unveiled
- July 1 â 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 â Charles Foulkes, General, first Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, negotiated the WWII Nazi surrender in the Netherlands (d.1969)
- February 15 â Sarto Fournier, politician and mayor of Montreal (d.1980)
- February 16 â Georges-Henri Lévesque, Dominican priest and sociologist (d.2000)
- February 22 â Morley Callaghan, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television and radio personality (d.1990)
- February 25 â King Clancy, ice hockey player (d.1986)
- May 23 â Elsie Gibbons, politician, first women to be elected mayor of a municipality in Quebec (d.2003)[2]
- June 10 â Alexander Wallace Matheson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1976)
- June 23 â Paul Martin Sr., politician (d.1992)
- June 30 â Donald Ferguson Brown, politician, barrister and lawyer
July to December
- July 16 â 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 â Helen Battle, zoologist
- December 8 â Louis-Marie Régis, philosopher, theologian, scholar and member of the Dominican Order (d.1988)
Deaths
- January 7 â Robert Atkinson Davis, businessman, politician and 4th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1841)
- July 2 â Oliver Mowat, politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario and 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)
- April 30 â Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (b. 1831)
- May 6 â Samuel Bridgeland, politician (b. 1847)
- May 8 â David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist (b. 1831)
- June 26 â Donald Farquharson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1834)
- November 12 â William Doran, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (b. 1834)
- November 14 â John Andrew Davidson, politician (b. 1852)