Events from the year 1905 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown Monarch – Edward VII
Federal government Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier Chief Justice – Henri Elzéar Taschereau (Quebec) Parliament – 10th (from 11 January)
Provincial governments
Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea (from September 1) 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 – William Mortimer Clark Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget (from September 1)
Premiers Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford (from September 2) Premier of British Columbia – 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 (until February 8) then James Whitney Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters Premier of Quebec – Simon-Napoléon Parent (until March 24) then Lomer Gouin Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott (from September 5)
Territorial governments
Commissioners Commissioner of Yukon – Zachary Taylor Wood (acting) (until May 27) then William Wallace Burns McInnes Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White (from August 24)
Lieutenant governors Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan (until September 1) Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget (until September 1)
Premiers Premier of North-West Territories – Frederick Haultain (until September 1)
Events January 25 – 1905 Ontario election: Sir James Whitney's Conservatives win a majority, defeating G. W. Ross's Liberals February 8 – Sir James Whitney becomes premier of Ontario, replacing George Ross February 27 – Clifford Sifton resigns from cabinet March 23 – Lomer Gouin becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Simon-Napoléon Parent July 20 – The Saskatchewan Act and the Alberta Act receive royal assent August 24 – Frederick D. White becomes the first Commissioner of the Northwest Territories in Canada, and will serve until his death in 1918. August 26 – Roald Amundsen begins the first to travel through the Northwest Passage September 1 – Saskatchewan and Alberta are established as provinces September 2 – Alexander Rutherford becomes the first premier of Alberta September 5 – Walter Scott becomes the first premier of Saskatchewan November 9 – 1905 Alberta general election: Alexander Rutherford's Liberals win a majority in the first Alberta election November 24 – The Canadian Northern Railway is completed to Edmonton December 13 – 1905 Saskatchewan election: Walter Scott's Liberals win a majority in the first Saskatchewan election Births January to June January 21 – George Laurence, nuclear physicist (d.1987) January 28 – Ellen Fairclough, politician and first female member of the Canadian Cabinet (d.2004) February 8 – Louis-Philippe Pigeon, judge of the Supreme Court of Canada (d.1986) March 27 – Elsie MacGill, the world's first female aircraft designer (d.1980) April 30 – John Peters Humphrey, legal scholar, jurist and human rights advocate (d.1995) May 1 – Paul Desruisseaux, lawyer and politician (d. 1982) May 23 – Donald Fleming, politician, International Monetary Fund official and lawyer (d.1986) June 8 – Ralph Steinhauer, native leader, first Aboriginal to become the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (d.1987) June 23 – Jack Pickersgill, civil servant and politician (d.1997) July to December July 4 – Marie-Thérèse Paquin, pianist (d. 1997) July 25 – Grace MacInnis, politician and feminist (d.1991) August 1 – Helen Hogg-Priestley, astronomer (d.1993) August 31 – William Anderson, politician and businessman (d.1961) August 15 – E.K. Brown, literary critic September 21 – Loran Ellis Baker, politician (d.1991) November 1 – Paul-Émile Borduas, painter (d.1960) December 1 – Alex Wilson, track and field athlete and Olympic silver medallist (d.1994) December 24 – Milt Dunnell, sportswriter (d.2008) Full date unknown Nat Taylor, inventor of the cineplex (d.2004) Deaths April 23 – Gédéon Ouimet, politician and 2nd Premier of Quebec (b.1823) May 23 – Fletcher Bath Wade, politician and barrister (b.1852) May 29 – William McDougall, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation (b.1822) August 1 – John Brown, politician, miller, mining consultant and prospector (b.1841) August 7 – Alexander Melville Bell, educator (b.1819) September 8 – David Howard Harrison, farmer, physician, politician and 6th Premier of Manitoba (b.1843) October 29 – Étienne Desmarteau, athlete and Olympic gold medallist (b.1873)
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