Crown

• Monarch – George V ^[1]

Federal government

• Governor General – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• Prime Minister – Robert Borden
• Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
• Parliament – 12th

Provincial governments

Territorial governments

Unknown date

• June – Start of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916 a scientific expedition in the Arctic Circle organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
• Laura Secord Chocolates opens

New Books

• Maria Chapdelaine

January to June

• January 13 – Philip Gaglardi, politician (d. 1995)
• March 11 – John Weinzweig, composer (d. 2006)
• March 24 – Émile Benoît, musician (d. 1992)
• April 4 – Jules Léger, diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d. 1980) ^[2]
• April 24 – Violet Archer, composer, teacher, pianist, organist and percussionist (d. 2000)
• April 30 – Edith Fowke, folk song collector, author and radio presenter (d. 1996)
• May 15 – John Duffie, writer (d. 1989)
• May 27 – James Page Mackey, chief of Toronto Police Service (d. 2009)
• June 12 – Jean Victor Allard, general and first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff (d. 1996)
• June 14 – Joe Morris, trade unionist and president of the Canadian Labour Congress (d. 1996)
• June 18 – Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, heart surgeon (d. 2005)

July to December

• July 6 – J. Carson Mark, mathematician who worked on development of nuclear weapons (d. 1997)
• July 16 – Woodrow Stanley Lloyd, politician and 8th Premier of Saskatchewan (d. 1972)
• August 28
  • Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor (d. 1995)
  • Rose Goldblatt, administrator, pianist and teacher (d. 1997)
• September 20 – Robert Christie, actor and director (d. 1996)
• October 5 – Horace Gwynne, boxer and Olympic gold medalist (d. 2001)
• November 7 – Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, portrait sculptor (d. 2009)
• November 8 – June Havoc, actress, dancer, writer, and theater director (d. 2010)
• November 16 – Dora de Pedery-Hunt, sculptor and coin and medal designer (d. 2008)
• November 21 – Stewart McLean, politician (d. 1996)
• December 7 – Donald C. MacDonald, politician (d. 2008)
• December 12 – Clint Smith, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2009)
• December 16 – George Ignatieff, diplomat (d. 1989)
• December 27 – Elizabeth Smart, poet and novelist (d. 1986)