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Events from the year 1883 in Canada.

[edit] Events

• 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.

[edit] Full date unknown

• 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

[edit] Births

[edit] January to June

• January 30 - Mountenay Du Val, conservationist
• 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)
• June 23 - Frederick Taylor, hockey player

[edit] July to December

• 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)

[edit] Deaths

• June 30 - Albert James Smith, politician and Minister (b.1822)