1905 in Canada

"See also:"
1904 in Canada,
other events of 1905,
1906 in Canada and the
Timeline of Canadian history.

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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 receives Royal Assent
* August 26 - Roald Amundsen begins the first to travel through the Northwest Passage
* September 1 - The Autonomy Act is passed, thus creating Saskatchewan and Alberta.
* September 2 - Alexander Rutherford becomes the first premier of Alberta.
* September 5 - Walter Scott becomes the first premier of Saskatchewan.
* November 9 - 1st Alberta General Election: Alexander Rutherford's Liberals win a majority in the first Alberta election
* November 24 - The Canadian Northernis complete to Edmonton
* December 13 - 1905 Saskatchewan election: Walter Scott's Liberals win a majority in the first Saskatchewan election

Births

* January 21 - George Craig Laurence, physicist
* January 28 - Ellen Fairclough, politician
* February 8 - Louis-Philippe Pigeon, jurist
* March 27 - Elsie MacGill, aerospace engineer
* April 30 - John Peters Humphrey, principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
* May 23 - Donald Fleming, politician
* June 8 - Ralph Steinhauer, native leader
* June 23 - Jack Pickersgill, politician
* July 25 - Grace MacInnis, politician
* August 1 - Helen Hogg-Priestley, astronomer
* August 31 - William Anderson, politician
* August 15 - E.K Brown, literary critic
* September 21 - Loran Ellis Baker, politician
* November 1 - Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter
* December 1 - Alex Wilson, track and field athlete (d. 1994)
* Nat Taylor, inventor of the cineplex

Deaths

* May 23 - Fletcher Bath Wade, politician