1913 in Canada
Events from the year 1913 in Canada.
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Events
- April 17 - 1913 Alberta election: Arthur Sifton's Liberals win a third consecutive majority
- November 7 - November 8 - A storm on the Great Lakes sinks some thirty-four ships
- November 17 - The National Transcontinental Railway is completed
Arts and literature
New Books
Births
January to June
- January 13 - Philip Gaglardi, politician (d.1995)
- March 11 - John Weinzweig, composer (d.2006)
- April 4 - Jules Léger, diplomat and 21st 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)
- 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
- November 16 - Dora de Pedery-Hunt, sculptor and coin and medal designer
- 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)
- August 6 - John M. Bryant, first aviator killed in a crash in Canada
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