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1903 in Canada

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1903
in
Canada

Decades:
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Events from the year 1903 in Canada.

Incumbents

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Crown

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Federal government

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Provincial governments

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Territorial governments

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Commissioners

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Lieutenant governors

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Premiers

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Events

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April 29: The Frank Slide occurs

Arts and literature

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See also

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Births

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January to June

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July to December

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Deaths

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Donald Farquharson
Oliver Mowat

Historical documents

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Alberta farmer's examples of being "most unmercifully fleeced by those iniquitous tariffs" include taxes on blankets, clothing, tools, kitchenware etc.[3]

Disastrous landslide at Frank, Alberta described[4]

Saint John Globe correspondent covers canoe trip down Saint John River above Fredericton, N.B.[5]

Halifax Morning Chronicle correspondent provides humorous profile of New Westminster, B.C.[6]

Gold, fraud and foxes in news from New Bay, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland[7]

Despite late planting and her husband working off-farm, newly immigrated woman and sons bring in successful harvest in Saskatchewan [8]

Explorer's last words as he starves to death on Labrador expedition that his wife later completes[9]

References

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  1. ^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.
  2. ^ Lambert, Maude-Emmanuelle (December 5, 2014). "Elsie Gibbons". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  3. ^ Letter of James Murray (December 3, 1903) reprinted in Liberal Publication Department, "Protection at Work; Two Voices from Canada" General Election, 1906: Set of Leaflets (London, U.K., 1906), pgs. 139-40. Accessed 12 September 2022
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ "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
  6. ^ Peter McLaren MacDonald, "Royal City of the West" Letters from the Canadian West (1903), pgs. 33-5. Accessed 23 January 2020
  7. ^ "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")
  8. ^ Canadian Pacific Railway, Women's Work in Western Canada (1906), pgs. 20-1. Accessed 23 January 2020
  9. ^ 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")