1903 in Canada

Incumbents

Crown

• Monarch – Edward VII

  Federal government

• Governor general – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
• Prime minister – Wilfrid Laurier
• Chief Justice – Henri Elzéar Taschereau
• Parliament – 9th

  Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière
• Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball
• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Alfred Gilpin Jones
• Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Oliver Mowat then William Mortimer Clark
• Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Peter Adolphus McIntyre
• Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté

  Premiers

• Premier of British Columbia – Edward Gawler Prior then Richard McBride
• Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
• Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie
• Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
• Premier of Ontario – George William Ross
• Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
• Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent

  Territorial governments

Commissioners

• Commissioner of Yukon – Zachary Taylor Wood then Frederick Tennyson Congdon

  Lieutenant governors

• Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan
• Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget

  Premiers

• Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain

  Events

• March 22 – Because of a drought, the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
• March 1 – Henri Bourassa's Ligue nationaliste is founded
• March 25 – The Alaska Boundary Dispute is settled in the United States' favour
• April 29 – The Frank Slide, The most destructive landslide in Canadian history, kills 70 in Frank, District of Alberta, North-West Territories
• June 1 – Richard McBride becomes Premier of British Columbia, replacing Edward Prior
• June 19 – Regina, District of Assiniboia, North-West Territories, is incorporated as a city
• June 24 – Ignace Bourget Monument unveiled
• July 1 – Ray Knight builds the Raymond Stampede rodeo arena and rodeo grandstands in Raymond, District of Alberta, North-West Territories, which are the first ever built in the world.

  Arts and literature

Births

January to June

• January 3 – Charles Foulkes, general and first Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff
• February 15 – Sarto Fournier, politician and mayor of Montreal
• February 16 – Georges-Henri Lévesque, Dominican priest and sociologist
• February 22 – Morley Callaghan, novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television and radio personality
• February 25 – King Clancy, ice hockey player
• June 10 – Alexander Wallace Matheson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• June 23 – Paul Martin Sr., politician
• June 30 – Donald Ferguson Brown, politician, barrister and lawyer

  July to December

• July 16 – Carmen Lombardo, singer and composer
• July 30
• *Harold Ballard, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs
• *Alan Macnaughton, politician
• August 31 – Helen Battle, zoologist
• October 11 – David Turner, soccer player
• December 8 – Louis-Marie Régis, philosopher, theologian, scholar and member of the Dominican Order

  Deaths

• January 7 – Robert Atkinson Davis, businessman, politician and 4th Premier of Manitoba
• July 2 – Oliver Mowat, politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario and 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
• April 30 – Emily Stowe, first female doctor to practice in Canada and women's rights and suffrage activist
• May 6 – Samuel Bridgeland, politician
• May 8 – David Mills, politician, author, poet and jurist
• June 26 – Donald Farquharson, politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island
• November 12 – William Doran, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario
• November 14 – John Andrew Davidson, politician

  Historical Documents