1903 in Canada
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Events from the year 1903 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
Federal government
- Governor general – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (viceregal consort – Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto)
- Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
- Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
- Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
- Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones
- Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat (until April 19) then William Mortimer Clark (from April 21)
- Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
- Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
Premiers
- Premier of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior (until June 1) then Richard McBride
- Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
- Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
- Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
- Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
- Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
- Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent
Territorial governments
Commissioners
- Commissioner of Yukon – Zachary Taylor Wood (acting) (until March 4) then Frederick Tennyson Congdon
Lieutenant governors
- Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
- Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget
Premiers
Events
- March 22 - Because of a drought, the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
- March 1 - Henri Bourassa's Ligue nationaliste is founded
- March 25 - The Alaska Boundary Dispute is settled in the United States' favour
- April 29 - The Frank Slide, The most destructive landslide in Canadian history, kills 70 in Frank, Alberta
- June 1 - Richard McBride becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing Edward Prior
- June 19 - Regina incorporated as a city
- June 24 - Ignace Bourget Monument unveiled
- July 1 - Ray Knight builds the Raymond Stampede rodeo arena and rodeo grandstands in Raymond, Alberta, which are the first ever built in the world.
Arts and literature
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Births
January to June
- January 3 - Charles Foulkes, general and first Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff (d.1969)
- February 15 - Sarto Fournier, politician and mayor of Montreal (d.1980)
- February 16 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, Dominican priest and sociologist (d.2000)
- February 22 - Morley Callaghan, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television and radio personality (d.1990)
- February 25 - King Clancy, ice hockey player (d.1986)
- April 29 - Frank Slide happens in old Frank in the Crowsnest Pass
- June 10 - Alexander Wallace Matheson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (d.1976)
- June 23 - Paul Joseph James Martin, politician (d.1992)
- June 30 - Donald Ferguson Brown, politician, barrister and lawyer
July to December
- July 16 - Carmen Lombardo, singer and composer (d.1971)
- July 30
- Harold Ballard, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs (d.1990)
- Alan Macnaughton, politician (d.1999)
- August 31 - Helen Battle, zoologist
- October 11 - David Turner, soccer player
- December 8 - Louis-Marie Régis, philosopher, theologian, scholar and member of the Dominican Order (d.1988)
Deaths
- January 7 - Robert Atkinson Davis, businessman, politician and 4th Premier of Manitoba (b.1841)
- July 2 - Oliver Mowat, politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario and 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1820)
- April 30 - Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist (b.1831)
- May 8 - David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist (b.1831)
- June 26 - Donald Farquharson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (b.1834)
- November 12 - William Doran, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (b.1834)
- November 14 - John Andrew Davidson, politician (b.1852)
