# 1913 in Canada

Events from the year 1913 in Canada.

## Incumbents
### Crown

* Monarch – George V

### Federal government

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

### Provincial governments
#### Lieutenant governors

* 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

#### Premiers

* 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

### Territorial governments
#### Commissioners

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

## Events

* 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 – The High 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 the Great Lakes sinks some thirty-four ships
* November 17 – The National Transcontinental Railway is completed

## Sport

* March 1 – The Quebec Bulldogs win their second Stanley Cup.
* March 7 – The Victoria Senators win their first Pacific Coast Hockey Association championship.
* November 29 – The Hamilton Tigers win their first Grey Cup by defeating the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 44 to 2 in the 5th Grey Cup played at Hamilton, Ontario's A.A.A. Grounds.
* Unknown - The Winnipeg Hockey Club defeats the Edmonton Eskimos to win the 1913 Allan Cup.

### Unknown date

* June – Start of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916 a scientific expedition in the Arctic Circle organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
* Laura Secord Chocolates opens

## Arts and literature
### New Books

* Maria Chapdelaine

## Births
### January to June

* 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 and Governor General of Canada (d. 1980)
* 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 27 – James Page Mackey, chief of Toronto Police Service (d. 2009)
* June 12 – Jean Victor Allard, general and first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1996)
* June 14 – Joe Morris, trade unionist and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (d. 1996)
* June 18 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, heart surgeon (d. 2005)

### July to December

* July 6 – J. Carson Mark, mathematician who worked on development of nuclear weapons (d. 1997)
* July 16 – Woodrow Stanley Lloyd, politician and 8th Premier of Saskatchewan (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)

## Deaths

* 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)