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
, daughter of Emily Stowe, is the first woman to graduate from the .
The 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 – , 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 – , 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]

Haida story of The Man in the Moon repeated by ethnographer James G. Swan and illustrated by Johnny Kit Elswa^[2]

Routing CPR line away from more fertile prairie land will hinder settlement ^[3]

Sandford Fleming's contributions to establishing standard time ^[4]

Mounties return stolen horses, but deny U.S. Army claim that Cree will wage war in Montana ^[5]

One cattle hand shoots another, then outraces Mounties to U.S. border ^[6]

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 https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/
^ "The man in the moon. Haida mythology. Pen-and-ink drawing[...]," Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel Collection of Western American Art, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. Accessed 11 August 2020 https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3432830
^ "A Consequence of the Diversion of the C.P.R.," The (Toronto) Globe (March 3, 1883). Accessed 6 October 2019 http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/thewest/globecpr.htm
^ 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 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101058411487&view=image&seq=5
^ United States Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States[...] (1883), pgs. 511-12. Accessed 6 October 2019 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1883.p0581&id=FRUS.FRUS1883&isize=M
^ John Roderick Craig, Ranching with Lords and Commons[...] (1903), pgs. 97-101. Accessed 6 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2682/107.html

[1] 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 https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/

[2] "The man in the moon. Haida mythology. Pen-and-ink drawing[...]," Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel Collection of Western American Art, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. Accessed 11 August 2020 https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3432830

[3] "A Consequence of the Diversion of the C.P.R.," The (Toronto) Globe (March 3, 1883). Accessed 6 October 2019 http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/thewest/globecpr.htm

[4] 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 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101058411487&view=image&seq=5

[5] United States Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States[...] (1883), pgs. 511-12. Accessed 6 October 2019 http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1883.p0581&id=FRUS.FRUS1883&isize=M

[6] John Roderick Craig, Ranching with Lords and Commons[...] (1903), pgs. 97-101. Accessed 6 October 2019 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2682/107.html

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