1913 in Canada
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Events from the year 1913 in Canada.
Incumbents
[edit]Crown
[edit]Federal government
[edit]- Governor General – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
- Prime Minister – Robert Borden
- Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
- Parliament – 12th
Provincial governments
[edit]Lieutenant governors
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Commissioners
[edit]- Commissioner of Yukon – George Black
- Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
- Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White
Events
[edit]- 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
Sport
[edit]- 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 date
[edit]- 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 literature
[edit]New Books
[edit]Births
[edit]January to June
[edit]- 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 15 – John Duffie, writer (d. 1989)
- 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
[edit]- 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)
Deaths
[edit]- 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)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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.
