1903 in Canada

Events from the year 1903 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Edward VII

Federal government

• Governor General – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
• Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Henri Elzéar Taschereau (Quebec)
• Parliament – 9th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat (until April 19) then William Mortimer Clark (from April 21)
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté

Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior (until June 1) then Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent

Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – Zachary Taylor Wood (acting) (until March 4) then Frederick Tennyson Congdon

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

Premiers

• Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

Events

• March 22 – Because of a drought, the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
• March 1 – Henri Bourassa's Ligue nationaliste is founded
• March 25 – The Alaska Boundary Dispute is settled in the United States' favour
• April 29 – The Frank Slide, The most destructive landslide in Canadian history, kills 70 in Frank, District of Alberta, North-West Territories
• June 1 – Richard McBride becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing Edward Prior
• June 19 – Regina, District of Assiniboia, North-West Territories, is incorporated as a city
• June 24 – Ignace Bourget Monument unveiled
• July 1 – 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

• List of Canadian films

Births

January to June

• January 3 – Charles Foulkes, General, first Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, negotiated the WWII Nazi surrender in the Netherlands (d.1969)
• February 15 – Sarto Fournier, politician and mayor of Montreal (d.1980)
• February 16 – Georges-Henri Lévesque, Dominican priest and sociologist (d.2000)
• February 22 – Morley Callaghan, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television and radio personality (d.1990)
• February 25 – King Clancy, ice hockey player (d.1986)
• May 23 – Elsie Gibbons, politician, first women to be elected mayor of a municipality in Quebec (d.2003)
• June 10 – Alexander Wallace Matheson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1976)
• June 23 – Paul Martin Sr., politician (d.1992)
• June 30 – Donald Ferguson Brown, politician, barrister and lawyer

July to December

• July 16 – 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 – Helen Battle, zoologist
• December 8 – Louis-Marie Régis, philosopher, theologian, scholar and member of the Dominican Order (d.1988)

Deaths

• January 7 – Robert Atkinson Davis, businessman, politician and 4th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1841)
• July 2 – Oliver Mowat, politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario and 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)
• April 30 – Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (b. 1831)
• May 6 – Samuel Bridgeland, politician (b. 1847)
• May 8 – David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist (b. 1831)
• June 26 – Donald Farquharson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1834)
• November 12 – William Doran, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (b. 1834)
• November 14 – John Andrew Davidson, politician (b. 1852)

References