1883 in Canada

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Events from the year 1883 in Canada.

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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 5 - Prince Edward Island election: William Wilfred Sullivan's Conservatives 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.

Andrew Blair becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Daniel Hanington
Augusta Stowe, daughter of Emily Stowe, is the first woman to graduate from the Toronto Medical School.
The Toronto Women's Suffrage Association replaces the Literary Club of 1876.
Nickel-copper ore is discovered at Murray Mine in Sudbury during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway

January 30 - Mountenay Du Val, 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)

August 7 - Gordon Sidney Harrington, politician and Premier of Nova Scotia (d.1943)
October 2 - Robert Boyle, 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)