1883 in Canada
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Events from the year 1883 in Canada.
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- 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 5 - Prince Edward Island election: William Wilfred Sullivan's Conservatives 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.
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
Births
January to June
- 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)
- 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)
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)
Deaths
- June 18 - François Norbert Blanchet, missionary (b.1795)
- June 26 - Sir Edward Sabine, soldier and scientist (b.1788)
- June 30 - Albert James Smith, politician and Minister (b.1822)
- August 14 - James Cockburn, politician (b.1819)
- August 16 - Richard Alleyn, lawyer, judge, educator and politician (b.1835)
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