1913 in Canada

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Events from the year 1913 in Canada.

IncumbentsEdit

CrownEdit

Monarch – George V<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Federal governmentEdit

Governor General – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Prime Minister – Robert Borden
Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
Parliament – 12th

Provincial governmentsEdit

Lieutenant governorsEdit

PremiersEdit

Territorial governmentsEdit

CommissionersEdit

EventsEdit

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

SportEdit

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.

Unknown dateEdit

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 literatureEdit

New BooksEdit

Maria Chapdelaine

BirthsEdit

January to JuneEdit

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)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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 DecemberEdit

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)

DeathsEdit

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)

Historical documentsEdit

With Canada's promises unfulfilled, Premier calls for fair shake for Prince Edward Island<ref>J.A. Matheson [sic], "The Island – Its Present and Future" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 157-69. Accessed 26 February 2020</ref>

Editorial claims modern woman has best prospects in western Canada <ref>Calgary Women's Press Club, Special Opportunity Number Western Standard Illustrated Weekly, Vol. III, No. 13 (June 12, 1913; unpaginated). Accessed 26 February 2020</ref>

"Few people[...]held life so lightly as these coast dwellers" - the "savage Indian" stereotype applied to Coast Salish people<ref>Edward S. Curtis, "Introduction" The North American Indian, Vol 9 (1913), pg. xi. Accessed 5 September 2020</ref>

Ambition and Canadian propaganda and incentives are motivating U.S. farmers to move to Canada (though some return) <ref>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</ref>

With "slums as bad as any in the world,[...]the Montrealer takes little interest in the affair of his city." <ref>George Hambleton, "What's the Matter With Montreal?" Saturday Mirror, No. 1 (February 1, 1913), pg. 5. Accessed 26 February 2020</ref>

House committee on pollution warned of widespread water-borne bacteria (especially typhoid) and general lack of water treatment<ref>"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</ref>

Nova Scotian looks back on his 12-year-old self fighting Fenians <ref>P.F. Lawson, "A Fenian Reminiscence" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (May 22, 1913). Accessed 26 February 2020</ref>

Photo: Kwakwaka'wakw carving, Dsawadi, Knight Inlet, B.C. (later "collected" for museum) <ref>William A. Newcombe, "Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) Ceremonial Carving at Dsawadi" (1913). Accessed 24 May 2020</ref>

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