1903 in Canada
Events from the year 1903 in Canada .
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Territorial governments
Commissioners
Lieutenant governors
Premiers
Events
April 29: The Frank Slide occurs March 22 – Because of a drought, the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
March 1 – Henri Bourassa 's Ligue nationaliste is founded
March 25 – The Alaska Boundary Dispute is settled in the United States ' favour
April 29 – The Frank Slide , The most destructive landslide in Canadian history, kills 70 in Frank , District of Alberta , North-West Territories
June 1 – Richard McBride becomes Premier of British Columbia , replacing Edward Prior
June 19 – Regina , District of Assiniboia , North-West Territories, is incorporated as a city
June 24 – Ignace Bourget Monument unveiled
July 1 – Ray Knight builds the Raymond Stampede rodeo arena and rodeo grandstands in Raymond , District of Alberta, North-West Territories, which are the first ever built in the world.
Arts and literature
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See also
Births
January to June
January 3 – Charles Foulkes , General, first Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff, negotiated the WWII Nazi surrender in the Netherlands (d.1969 )
February 15 – Sarto Fournier , politician and mayor of Montreal (d.1980 )
February 16 – Georges-Henri Lévesque , Dominican priest and sociologist (d.2000 )
February 22 – Morley Callaghan , novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television and radio personality (d.1990 )
February 25 – King Clancy , ice hockey player (d.1986 )
May 23 – Elsie Gibbons , politician, first women to be elected mayor of a municipality in Quebec (d.2003 )[ 2]
June 10 – Alexander Wallace Matheson , politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1976 )
June 23 – Paul Martin Sr. , politician (d.1992 )
June 30 – Donald Ferguson Brown , politician, barrister and lawyer
July to December
Deaths
Donald Farquharson Oliver Mowat January 7 – Robert Atkinson Davis , businessman, politician and 4th Premier of Manitoba (b. 1841 )
July 2 – Oliver Mowat , politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario and 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820 )
April 30 – Emily Stowe , first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (b. 1831 )
May 6 – Samuel Bridgeland , politician (b. 1847 )
May 8 – David Mills , politician, author, poet and jurist (b. 1831 )
June 26 – Donald Farquharson , politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1834 )
November 12 – William Doran , mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (b. 1834 )
November 14 – John Andrew Davidson , politician (b. 1852 )
Historical documents
Alberta farmer's examples of being "most unmercifully fleeced by those iniquitous tariffs " include taxes on blankets, clothing, tools, kitchenware etc.[ 3]
Disastrous landslide at Frank, Alberta described[ 4]
Saint John Globe correspondent covers canoe trip down Saint John River above Fredericton , N.B.[ 5]
Halifax Morning Chronicle correspondent provides humorous profile of New Westminster , B.C.[ 6]
Gold, fraud and foxes in news from New Bay, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland[ 7]
Despite late planting and her husband working off-farm, newly immigrated woman and sons bring in successful harvest in Saskatchewan
[ 8]
Explorer 's last words as he starves to death on Labrador expedition that his wife later completes[ 9]
References
^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8 ^ Lambert, Maude-Emmanuelle (December 5, 2014). "Elsie Gibbons" . The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved October 13, 2021 . ^ Letter of James Murray (December 3, 1903) reprinted in Liberal Publication Department, "Protection at Work; Two Voices from Canada" General Election, 1906: Set of Leaflets (London, U.K., 1906), pgs. 139-40. Accessed 12 September 2022
^ Department of the Interior, Dominion of Canada, "Description of the Slide" Report of the Great Landslide at Frank, Alta.; 1903 (1904), pgs. 6-8. Accessed 23 January 2020
^ "Canoeing on the River; Excitements and Pleasures of a Trip Down the Upper St. John" Saint John Globe (August 1, 1903). Accessed 23 January 2020^ Peter McLaren MacDonald, "Royal City of the West" Letters from the Canadian West (1903), pgs. 33-5. Accessed 23 January 2020
^ "New Bay," St. John's Free Press (October 20, 1903). Accessed 23 January 2020 http://www.rootsweb.com/~cannf/nd_freepress1903.htm (scroll down to "foxes")
^ Canadian Pacific Railway, Women's Work in Western Canada (1906), pgs. 20 -1. Accessed 23 January 2020
^ Mina Benson Hubbard, A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (1908). Accessed 23 January 2020 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4266/pg4266.html (scroll down to "Sunday, October 18th")
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