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1883 in Canada

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Events from the year 1883 in Canada.

Incumbents

Crown

  • Monarch – Victoria

Federal government

  • Governor General – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (until October 23) then Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
  • 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 graduated by 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 (CPR).
  • Medicine Hat is settled by European Canadians when the CPR crosses the South Saskatchewan River.

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)
  • March 25 – Talbot Papineau, lawyer and soldier (d.1917)
  • 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 24 – William Henry Fenton, Ontario politician (d. 1972)
  • 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)

References

References

  1. "Queen Victoria {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia".
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