1883 in Canada
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Events from the year 1883 in Canada.
Contents
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor general – John Campbell (until October 23) then Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice
- Prime minister – John A. Macdonald
- Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
- Parliament – 5th (from 8 February)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Robert Duncan Wilmot
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald (until July 4) then Matthew Henry Richey
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas Heath Haviland
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Théodore Robitaille
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Robert Beaven (until January 29) then William Smithe
- Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
- Premier of New Brunswick – Daniel Lionel Hanington (until March 3) then Andrew George Blair
- Premier of Nova Scotia – William Thomas Pipes
- Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
- Premier of Quebec – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
Territorial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – James Cox Aikins
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Edgar Dewdney
Events
- January 23 – Manitoba election
- January 29 – William Smithe becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing Robert Beaven
- February 27 – Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority
- August 31 – The Calgary Herald publishes its first issue
- November 18 – Canada adopts Standard Time
- December 1 – Regina officially declared a town.
Full date unknown
- Andrew Blair becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Daniel Hanington
- Augusta Stowe, daughter of Emily Stowe, is the first woman to graduate from the Toronto Medical School.
- The Toronto Women's Suffrage Association replaces the Literary Club of 1876.
- Nickel-copper ore is discovered at Murray Mine in Sudbury during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Births
January to June
- January 30 – Mountenay Du Val, conservationist
- February 28 – Fernand Rinfret, politician (d.1939)
- March 4 – Sam Langford, boxer (d.1956)
- March 5 – Marius Barbeau, ethnographer and folklorist (d.1969)
- April 18 – Isabel Meighen, wife of Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d.1985)
- June 22 – John Bracken, politician and 11th Premier of Manitoba (d.1969)
July to December
- August 7 – Gordon Sidney Harrington, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1943)
- October 2 – Robert Boyle, physicist
- November 30 – James Garfield Gardiner, politician, Minister and Premier of Saskatchewan (d.1962)
- December 27 – Cyrus S. Eaton, investment banker, businessman and philanthropist (d.1979)
Deaths
- June 18 – François Norbert Blanchet, missionary (b.1795)
- June 26 – Sir Edward Sabine, soldier and scientist (b.1788)
- June 30 – Albert James Smith, politician and Minister (b.1822)
- August 14 – James Cockburn, politician (b.1819)
- August 16 – Richard Alleyn, lawyer, judge, educator and politician (b.1835)
Historical Documents
Destitute Cree insist government live up to its treaty obligations [1]
Routing CPR line away from more fertile prairie land will hinder settlement [2]
Sandford Fleming's contributions to establishing standard time [3]
Mounties return stolen horses, but deny U.S. Army claim that Cree will wage war in Montana [4]
One cattle hand shoots another, then outraces Mounties to U.S. border [5]
References
- ^ Excerpt of letter from Bobtail, Ermine Skin, Samson and others, in John Douglas Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation (2016), pgs. 52-3. Accessed 19 October 2019 [opentextbc.ca]
- ^ "A Consequence of the Diversion of the C.P.R.," The (Toronto) Globe (March 3, 1883). Accessed 6 October 2019 [www.canadahistory.com]
- ^ Proceedings of the American Metrological [sic] Society; Vol. IV; May 1883, December, 1883 (1884), pgs. 6-8, 9-13, 27, 36, 101-7. Accessed 12 October 2019 [babel.hathitrust.org]
- ^ United States Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States[...] (1883), pgs. 511-12. Accessed 6 October 2019 [digicoll.library.wisc.edu]
- ^ John Roderick Craig, Ranching with Lords and Commons[...] (1903), pgs. 97-101. Accessed 6 October 2019 [peel.library.ualberta.ca]
