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Events from the year1913 in Canada.

• Monarch –George V^[1]

• Governor General –Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• Prime Minister –Robert Borden
• Chief Justice –Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
• Parliament –12th

• Lieutenant Governor of Alberta –George H. V. Bulyea
• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia –Thomas Wilson Paterson
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba –Douglas Cameron
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick –Josiah Wood
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia –James Drummond McGregor
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario –John Morison Gibson
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island –Benjamin Rogers
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec –François Langelier
• Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan –George William Brown

• Premier of Alberta –Arthur Sifton
• Premier of British Columbia –Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba –Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick –James Kidd Flemming
• Premier of Nova Scotia –George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario –James Whitney
• Premier of Prince Edward Island –John Alexander Mathieson
• Premier of Quebec –Lomer Gouin
• Premier of Saskatchewan –Thomas Walter Scott

• Commissioner of Yukon –George Black
• Gold Commissioner of Yukon –George P. MacKenzie
• Commissioner of Northwest Territories –Frederick D. White

• March 27 –Le Droit first published in French
• April 17 –1913 Alberta general election:Arthur Sifton's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
• June 2 – TheHigh Level Bridge (Edmonton) opens, with two lanes of traffic on the lower deck, and two streetcar tracks and one CPR track on the upper deck
• November 7 – November 8 – A storm on theGreat Lakes sinks some thirty-four ships
• November 17 – TheNational Transcontinental Railway is completed

• March 1 – TheQuebec Bulldogs win their secondStanley Cup.
• March 7 – TheVictoria Senators win their firstPacific Coast Hockey Association championship.
• November 29 – TheHamilton Tigers win their firstGrey Cup by defeating theToronto Parkdale Canoe Club 44 to 2 in the5th Grey Cup played atHamilton, Ontario'sA.A.A. Grounds.
• Unknown - TheWinnipeg Hockey Club defeats theEdmonton Eskimos to win the1913 Allan Cup.

• June – Start of theCanadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916 a scientific expedition in theArctic Circle organized and led byVilhjalmur Stefansson.
• Laura Secord Chocolates opens

• Maria Chapdelaine

• 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 andGovernor 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 15 –John Duffie, writer (d.1989)
• May 27 –James Page Mackey, chief ofToronto Police Service (d.2009)
• June 12 –Jean Victor Allard, general and firstFrench-Canadian to becomeChief of the Defence Staff (d.1996)
• June 14 –Joe Morris, trade unionist and president of theCanadian Labour Congress (d.1996)
• June 18 –Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, heart surgeon (d.2005)

• July 6 –J. Carson Mark, mathematician who worked on development of nuclear weapons (d.1997)
• July 16 –Woodrow Stanley Lloyd, politician and 8th Premier ofSaskatchewan (d.1972)
• August 28
  • Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor (d.1995)
  • Rose Goldblatt, administrator, pianist and teacher (d.1997)
• 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)

• March 7 –Pauline Johnson, poet, writer and performer (b.1861)
• April 12 –Alexander Francis Macdonald, politician (b.1818)
• April 23 –Richard William Scott, politician and Minister (b.1826)
• May 4 –John M. Baillie, politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (b.1847)
• July 15 –Hugh Richardson, jurist (b.1826)

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