1883 in Canada

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Events from the year 1883 in Canada.

Incumbents

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 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 graduated by 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 (CPR).
Medicine Hat is settled by European Canadians when the CPR crosses the South Saskatchewan River.

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)
March 25 – Talbot Papineau, lawyer and soldier (d.1917)
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 24 – William Henry Fenton, Ontario politician (d. 1972)
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)

Destitute Cree insist government live up to its treaty obligations^[2]

Haida story of The Man in the Moon repeated by ethnographer James G. Swan and illustrated by Johnny Kit Elswa^[3]

Routing CPR line away from more fertile prairie land will hinder settlement^[4]

Sandford Fleming's contributions to establishing standard time^[5]

Mounties return stolen horses, but deny U.S. Army claim that Cree will wage war in Montana^[6]

One cattle hand shoots another, then outraces Mounties to U.S. border ^[7]

^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
^ Excerpt of letter from Bobtail, Ermine Skin, Samson and others, in John Douglas Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation (2016), pgs. 52-3. Accessed 19 October 2019
^ "The man in the moon. Haida mythology. Pen-and-ink drawing[...]," Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel Collection of Western American Art, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. Accessed 11 August 2020
^ "A Consequence of the Diversion of the C.P.R." The (Toronto) Globe (March 3, 1883). Accessed 6 October 2019
^ Proceedings of the American Metrological [sic] Society; Vol. IV; May 1883, December, 1883 (1884), pgs. 6-8, 9-13, 27, 36, 101-7. Accessed 12 October 2019
^ United States Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States[...] (1883), pgs. 511-12 Accessed 6 October 2019
^ John Roderick Craig, Ranching with Lords and Commons[...] (1903), pgs. 97-101. Accessed 6 October 2019