1903 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Events

April 29: The Frank Slide occurs

Arts and literature

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See also

Births

January to June

July to December

Deaths

Donald Farquharson
Oliver Mowat

Historical Documents

Disastrous landslide at Frank, Alberta described [1]

Saint John Globe correspondent covers canoe trip down Saint John River above Fredericton, N.B. [2]

Halifax Morning Chronicle correspondent provides humorous profile of New Westminster, B.C. [3]

Gold, fraud and foxes in news from New Bay, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland [4]

Despite late planting and her husband working off-farm, newly immigrated woman and sons bring in successful harvest in Saskatchewan [5]

Explorer's last words as he starves to death on Labrador expedition that his wife later completes [6]

References

  1. Department of the Interior, Dominion of Canada, "Description of the Slide," Report of the Great Landslide at Frank, Alta.; 1903 (1904), pgs. 6-8. Accessed 23 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2701/7.html
  2. "Canoeing on the River; Excitements and Pleasures of a Trip Down the Upper St. John," Saint John Globe (August 1, 1903). Accessed 23 January 2020 http://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/Canoeing/Default.aspx?culture=en-CA&PG=1
  3. Peter McLaren MacDonald, "Royal City of the West," Letters from the Canadian West (1903), pgs. 33-5. Accessed 23 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2696/36.html
  4. "New Bay," St. John's Free Press (October 20, 1903). Accessed 23 January 2020 http://www.rootsweb.com/~cannf/nd_freepress1903.htm (scroll down to "foxes")
  5. Canadian Pacific Railway, Women's Work in Western Canada (1906), pgs. 20-1. Accessed 23 January 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/2932/21.html
  6. Mina Benson Hubbard, A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (1908). Accessed 23 January 2020 http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4266/pg4266.html (scroll down to "Sunday, October 18th")
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