1913 in Canada

Events from the year 1913 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – George V

Federal government

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

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• 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

• 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

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – George Black
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon – George P. MacKenzie
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

• 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

• 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

• 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

New Books

• Maria Chapdelaine

Births

January to June

• 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)
• 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

• 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

• 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

• List of Canadian films

References