Events from the year 1913 in Canada.
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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)[2]
- 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
- 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)
With Canada's promises unfulfilled, Premier calls for fair shake for Prince Edward Island[3]
Editorial claims modern woman has best prospects in western Canada
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"Few people[...]held life so lightly as these coast dwellers" - the "savage Indian" stereotype applied to Coast Salish people[5]
Ambition and Canadian propaganda and incentives are motivating U.S. farmers to move to Canada (though some return)
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With "slums as bad as any in the world,[...]the Montrealer takes little interest in the affair of his city."
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House committee on pollution warned of widespread water-borne bacteria (especially typhoid) and general lack of water treatment[8]
Nova Scotian looks back on his 12-year-old self fighting Fenians
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Photo: Kwakwaka'wakw carving, Dsawadi, Knight Inlet, B.C. (later "collected" for museum)
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Calgary Women's Press Club, Special Opportunity Number Western Standard Illustrated Weekly, Vol. III, No. 13 (June 12, 1913; unpaginated). Accessed 26 February 2020 Edward S. Curtis, "Introduction" The North American Indian, Vol 9 (1913), pg. xi. Accessed 5 September 2020 Letter of John D. Deets Commissioner of Immigration, State of South Dakota (March 26, 1913), Letters in Response to Inquiries[...]about the Movement of American Farmers Back to the United States from the Canadian Northwest. Accessed 26 February 2020 "Third Report" (May 30, 1913), Proceedings and Evidence of the Select Special Committee on the Pollution of Navigable Waters, pgs. 14-16. Accessed 15 October 2020
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