1913 in Canada
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Events from the year 1913 in Canada.
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Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Alberta â George H. V. Bulyea
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia â Thomas Wilson Paterson
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba â Douglas Cameron
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick â Josiah Wood
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia â James Drummond McGregor
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario â John Morison Gibson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island â Benjamin Rogers
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec â François Langelier
- Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan â George William Brown
Premiers
- Premier of Alberta â Arthur Sifton
- Premier of British Columbia â Richard McBride
- Premier of Manitoba â Rodmond Roblin
- Premier of New Brunswick â James Kidd Flemming
- Premier of Nova Scotia â George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario â James Whitney
- Premier of Prince Edward Island â John Alexander Mathieson
- Premier of Quebec â Lomer Gouin
- Premier of Saskatchewan â Thomas Walter Scott
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
- March 27 â Le Droit first published in French
- April 17 â 1913 Alberta general election: Arthur Sifton's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
- June 2 â 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 â November 8 â A storm on the Great Lakes sinks some thirty-four ships
- November 17 â The National Transcontinental Railway is completed
Sport
- March 1 â The Quebec Bulldogs win their second Stanley Cup.
- March 7 â The Victoria Senators win their first Pacific Coast Hockey Association championship.
- November 29 â 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.
Unknown date
- June â Start of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913â1916 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 â Philip Gaglardi, politician (d. 1995)
- March 11 â John Weinzweig, composer (d. 2006)
- March 24 â Ãmile Benoît, musician (d. 1992)
- April 4 â Jules Léger, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d. 1980)[2]
- April 24 â Violet Archer, composer, teacher, pianist, organist and percussionist (d. 2000)
- April 30 â Edith Fowke, folk song collector, author and radio presenter (d. 1996)
- May 15 â John Duffie, writer (d. 1989)
- May 27 â James Page Mackey, chief of Toronto Police Service (d. 2009)
- June 12 â Jean Victor Allard, general and first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1996)
- June 14 â Joe Morris, trade unionist and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (d. 1996)
- June 18 â Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, heart surgeon (d. 2005)
July to December
- July 6 â J. Carson Mark, mathematician who worked on development of nuclear weapons (d. 1997)
- July 16 â 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 â Robert Christie, actor and director (d. 1996)
- October 5 â Horace Gwynne, boxer and Olympic gold medalist (d. 2001)
- November 7 â Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, portrait sculptor (d. 2009)
- November 8 â June Havoc, actress, dancer, writer, and theater director (d. 2010)
- November 16 â Dora de Pedery-Hunt, sculptor and coin and medal designer (d. 2008)
- November 21 â Stewart McLean, politician (d. 1996)
- December 7 â Donald C. MacDonald, politician (d. 2008)
- December 12 â Clint Smith, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2009)
- December 16 â George Ignatieff, diplomat (d. 1989)
- December 27 â Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist (d. 1986)
Deaths
- March 7 â Pauline Johnson, poet, writer and performer (b. 1861)
- April 12 â Alexander Francis Macdonald, politician (b. 1818)
- April 23 â Richard William Scott, politician and Minister (b. 1826)
- May 4 â John M. Baillie, politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (b. 1847)
- July 15 â Hugh Richardson, jurist (b. 1826)