1883 in Canada
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- January 23 - Manitoba electionManitoba general election, 1883This was the fifth Manitoba general election and was held on January 23, 1883....
- January 29 - William SmitheWilliam SmitheWilliam Smithe was a British Columbia politician.Smithe was born William Smith in England and moved to Canada in his youth, settling on Vancouver Island in 1862 as a farmer. In 1871, he ran in BC's first election and won a seat in the new provincial legislature...
becomes premier of British ColumbiaBritish ColumbiaBritish Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, replacing Robert BeavenRobert BeavenRobert Beaven , son of James Beaven, was a British Columbia politician and businessman. Beaven moved to British Columbia from Toronto, where he had been educated at Upper Canada College, because of the gold rush. He entered business in Victoria, which was then the capital of the Colony of Vancouver... - February 27 - Ontario electionOntario general election, 1883Ontario general election, 1883 was the fifth general election held in the Province of Ontario, Canada. It was held on February 27, 1883, to elect the 88 Members of the 5th Legislative Assembly of Ontario ....
: Sir Oliver MowatOliver MowatSir Oliver Mowat, was a Canadian politician, and the third Premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, making him the longest serving premier of that province and the 3rd longest in all of Canadian history...
's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority - August 5 - Prince Edward Island electionPrince Edward Island general election, 1883The 1883 Prince Edward Island election was held on 5 August 1883 to elect members of the House of Assembly of the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was won by the Conservative party....
: William Wilfred SullivanWilliam Wilfred SullivanSir William Wilfred Sullivan was a Prince Edward Island journalist, politician and jurist, the fourth premier of Prince Edward Island....
's Conservatives win a fourth consecutive majority - August 31 - The Calgary HeraldCalgary HeraldThe Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in the Canadian city of Calgary, Alberta.- History :The paper was first published on August 31, 1883 by Andrew Armour and Thomas Braden as The Calgary Herald, Mining and Ranche Advocate and General Advertiser. It started as a weekly paper with only...
publishes its first issue - November 18 - Canada adopts Standard TimeStandard timeStandard time is the result of synchronizing clocks in different geographical locations within a time zone to the same time rather than using the local meridian as in local mean time or solar time. Historically, this helped in the process of weather forecasting and train travel. The concept...
- December 1 - ReginaRegina, SaskatchewanRegina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...
officially declared a town.
Full date unknown
- Andrew BlairAndrew George BlairAndrew George Blair, PC, KC was a Canadian politician in New Brunswick, Canada.He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1878 after unsuccessful attempts in the previous two elections. Though Blair was a supporter of Sir John A...
becomes premier of New BrunswickNew BrunswickNew Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
, replacing Daniel HaningtonDaniel Lionel HaningtonDaniel Lionel Hanington was a New Brunswick, Canada politician and jurist.He was born at Shediac, New Brunswick, the son of Daniel Hanington, and was educated there and at Mount Allison Academy in Sackville. He went on to study law and was called to the New Brunswick bar in 1861. In that same... - Augusta Stowe, daughter of Emily StoweEmily StoweDr. Emily Howard Stowe was the first female doctor to practice in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Emily Stowe was born in Norwich Township, Oxford County, Ontario...
, is the first woman to graduate from the Toronto Medical School. - The Toronto Women's Suffrage Association replaces the Literary Club of 1876.
- NickelNickelNickel is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile...
-copperCopperCopper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...
ore is discovered at Murray MineMurray MineMurray Mine is a defunct nickel and copper mine in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. It was the site of the original ore discovery that led to the launch of mining operations in the Sudbury area....
in Sudbury during construction of the Canadian Pacific RailwayCanadian Pacific RailwayThe Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...
January to June
- January 30 - Mountenay Du Val, conservationist
- February 28 - Fernand RinfretFernand RinfretLouis Édouard Fernand Rinfret, PC was a Canadian politician.-Biography:He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Montreal riding of St. James in a 1920 by-election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1921, 1925, 1930, and 1935...
, politician (d.19391939 in Canada-Events:*May 17 - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth begin their royal tour of Canada, eventually visiting every province.*September 7 - Prime Minister Mackenzie King calls for a special session of Parliament, to discuss a declaration of war versus Nazi Germany...
) - March 4 - Sam LangfordSam LangfordSam Langford was a Black Canadian boxing standout of the early part of the 20th century. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN. He was rated #2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". Langford was originally from Weymouth Falls, a small community in Nova...
, boxer (d.19561956 in Canada-Incumbents:*Monarch – Elizabeth II*Governor General – Vincent Massey*Prime Minister – Louis Saint Laurent*Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning*Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C...
) - March 5 - Marius BarbeauMarius BarbeauCharles Marius Barbeau, , also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology...
, ethnographer and folklorist (d.19691969 in Canada-Incumbents:*Monarch - Elizabeth II*Governor General - Roland Michener*Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau*Premier of Alberta - Harry Strom*Premier of British Columbia - W.A.C...
) - April 18 - Isabel MeighenIsabel MeighenIsabel Meighen, née Jessie Isabel Cox was the wife of Arthur Meighen, the ninth Prime Minister of Canada.She was born in Granby, Quebec...
, wife of Arthur MeighenArthur MeighenArthur Meighen, PC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served two terms as the ninth Prime Minister of Canada: from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921; and from June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding...
, 9th Prime Minister of CanadaPrime Minister of CanadaThe Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...
(d.19851985 in Canada-Incumbents:* Monarch: Elizabeth II* Governor General: Jeanne Sauvé* Prime Minister: Brian Mulroney* Premier of Alberta: Peter Lougheed then Don Getty* Premier of British Columbia: Bill Bennett* Premier of Manitoba: Howard Pawley...
) - June 22 - John BrackenJohn BrackenJohn Bracken, PC was an agronomist, the 11th Premier of Manitoba and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ....
, politician and 11th Premier of ManitobaPremier of ManitobaThe Premier of Manitoba is the first minister for the Canadian province of Manitoba. He or she is the province's head of government and de facto chief executive. Until the early 1970s, the title "Prime Minister of Manitoba" was used frequently. Afterwards, the word Premier, derived from the French...
(d.19691969 in Canada-Incumbents:*Monarch - Elizabeth II*Governor General - Roland Michener*Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau*Premier of Alberta - Harry Strom*Premier of British Columbia - W.A.C...
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July to December
- August 7 - Gordon Sidney HarringtonGordon Sidney HarringtonGordon Sidney Harrington was a Nova Scotia politician and the province's 11th Premier from 1930 to 1933.He was mayor of Glace Bay from 1913 to 1915 when he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force fighting in World War I...
, politician and Premier of Nova ScotiaNova ScotiaNova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
(d.19431943 in Canada-Events:*January 8 - Stuart Garson becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing John Bracken, who had governed for 21 years*May 11 - J. Walter Jones becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Thane Campbell...
) - October 2 - Robert Boyle, physicist
- November 30 - James Garfield GardinerJames Garfield GardinerJames Garfield "Jimmy" Gardiner, PC was a Canadian farmer, educator, and politician...
, politician, Minister and Premier of SaskatchewanSaskatchewanSaskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
(d.19621962 in Canada-Incumbents:*Monarch – Elizabeth II*Governor General – Georges Vanier*Prime Minister – John Diefenbaker*Premier of Alberta – Ernest Manning*Premier of British Columbia – W.A.C...
) - December 27 - Cyrus S. EatonCyrus S. EatonCyrus Stephen Eaton was a Canadian-born investment banker, businessman and philanthropist in the United States, with a career that spanned seventy years....
, investment banker, businessman and philanthropist (d.19791979 in Canada-January to June:*January 17 - Edward Richard Schreyer replaces Jules Léger as Governor General*February 1 - The first Winterlude is held in Ottawa*February 24 - An explosion rips through Number 26 Colliery located in Glace Bay, Cape Breton killing 12 men....
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Deaths
- June 18 - François Norbert Blanchet, missionary (b.17951795 in Canada-Events:* 1790s - British create protective tariffs to encourage timber production for Navy after Napoléon Bonaparte cuts off Baltic supply of tall trees and hardwood. First in New Brunswick then in Lower and Upper Canada...
) - June 26 - Sir Edward SabineEdward SabineGeneral Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer.Two branches of Sabine's work in particular deserve very high credit: Determination of the length of the seconds pendulum, a simple pendulum whose time period on the surface of the Earth is two...
, soldier and scientist (b.17881788 in Canada-Events:* Attorney-General Monk and Solicitor-General Williams are of opinion that, as the Jesuits have no civil existence as a Canadian corporation, their estates accrue to the Crown.* Ontario is divided into five districts, under English law.-Births:...
) - June 30 - Albert James SmithAlbert James SmithSir Albert James Smith, PC, KCMG, QC was a New Brunswick politician and opponent of Canadian confederation...
, politician and Minister (b.18221822 in CanadaSee also:1821 in Canada,other events of 1822,1823 in Canada.----Events from the year 1822 in Canada.-Events:*Louis-Joseph Papineau, a member of the legislative assembly since 1814, travels from Montreal to England to oppose an Act of Union identifying the French Canadians as a minority without...
) - August 14 - James Cockburn, politician (b.18191819 in Canada-Births:*February 12** Frederick Carter, Premier of Newfoundland ** Eden Colvile, Governor of Rupert's Land *February 13 — James Cockburn, politician *March 1 — Alexander Melville Bell, educator...
) - August 16 - Richard AlleynRichard AlleynRichard Alleyn was an Irish-born lawyer, judge, educator and political figure in Quebec. He represented Quebec-Ouest in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1877 to 1878 as a Conservative....
, lawyer, judge, educator and politician (b.18351835 in CanadaSee also:1834 in Canada,other events of 1835,1836 in Canada.----Events from the year 1835 in Canada.-Events:*February 21 - The Governor's speech, proroguing the Assembly's last session, is expunged from the Journals. The revolutionary speech reduces the Country Party in the House to less than...
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