1883 in Canada

Events from the year 1883 in Canada.

Incumbents

Governor General – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (until October 23) then Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
Prime Minister – John A. Macdonald
Chief Justice – William Johnstone Ritchie (New Brunswick)
Parliament – 5th (from 8 February)

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Clement Francis Cornwall
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Robert Duncan Wilmot
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Adams George Archibald (until July 4) then Matthew Henry Richey
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – John Beverley Robinson
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Thomas Heath Haviland
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Théodore Robitaille

Premier of British Columbia – Robert Beaven (until January 29) then William Smithe
Premier of Manitoba – John Norquay
Premier of New Brunswick – Daniel Lionel Hanington (until March 3) then Andrew George Blair
Premier of Nova Scotia – William Thomas Pipes
Premier of Ontario – Oliver Mowat
Premier of Prince Edward Island – William Wilfred Sullivan
Premier of Quebec – Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

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)