1913 in Canada

Events from the year 1913 in Canada.

Incumbents

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

January 13 – Philip Gaglardi, politician
March 11 – John Weinzweig, composer
March 24 – Émile Benoît, musician
April 4 – Jules Léger, diplomat and Governor General of Canada
April 24 – Violet Archer, composer, teacher, pianist, organist and percussionist
April 30 – Edith Fowke, folk song collector, author and radio presenter
May 15 – John Duffie, writer
May 27 – James Page Mackey, chief of Toronto Police Service
June 12 – Jean Victor Allard, general and first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff
June 14 – Joe Morris, trade unionist and president of the Canadian Labour Congress
June 18 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, heart surgeon

July 6 – J. Carson Mark, mathematician who worked on development of nuclear weapons
July 16 – Woodrow Stanley Lloyd, politician and 8th Premier of Saskatchewan
August 28
*Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor
*Rose Goldblatt, administrator, pianist and teacher
September 20 – Robert Christie, actor and director
October 5 – Horace Gwynne, boxer and Olympic gold medalist
November 7 – Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, portrait sculptor
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
December 7 – Donald C. MacDonald, politician
December 12 – Clint Smith, ice hockey player and coach
December 16 – George Ignatieff, diplomat
December 27 – Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist

March 7 – Pauline Johnson, poet, writer and performer
April 12 – Alexander Francis Macdonald, politician
April 23 – Richard William Scott, politician and Minister
May 4 – John M. Baillie, politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
July 15 – Hugh Richardson, jurist