1913 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1913
Events from the year 1913 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Events
Sport
Unknown date
Arts and literature
New Books
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 )[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 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
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
See also
Historical documents
With Canada's promises unfulfilled, Premier calls for fair shake for Prince Edward Island [3]
Editorial claims modern woman has best prospects in western Canada
[4]
"Few people[...]held life so lightly as these coast dwellers" - the "savage Indian" stereotype applied to Coast Salish people[5]
Ambition and Canadian propaganda and incentives are motivating U.S. farmers to move to Canada (though some return)
[6]
With "slums as bad as any in the world,[...]the Montrealer takes little interest in the affair of his city."
[7]
House committee on pollution warned of widespread water-borne bacteria (especially typhoid ) and general lack of water treatment [8]
Nova Scotian looks back on his 12-year-old self fighting Fenians
[9]
Photo: Kwakwaka'wakw carving, Dsawadi, Knight Inlet , B.C. (later "collected" for museum)
[10]
References
^ "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 .
^ J.A. Matheson [sic], "The Island – Its Present and Future" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 157-69. Accessed 26 February 2020
^ Calgary Women's Press Club, Special Opportunity Number Western Standard Illustrated Weekly, Vol. III, No. 13 (June 12, 1913; unpaginated). Accessed 26 February 2020
^ Edward S. Curtis, "Introduction" The North American Indian, Vol 9 (1913), pg. xi. Accessed 5 September 2020
^ 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
^ George Hambleton, "What's the Matter With Montreal?" Saturday Mirror, No. 1 (February 1, 1913), pg. 5. Accessed 26 February 2020
^ "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
^ P.F. Lawson, "A Fenian Reminiscence" The (Berwick, N.S.) Register (May 22, 1913). Accessed 26 February 2020
^ William A. Newcombe, "Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) Ceremonial Carving at Dsawadi" (1913). Accessed 24 May 2020
1913 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories