1905 in Canada
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See also: 1904 in Canada, other events of 1905, 1906 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.
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 15 - E.K Brown, literary critic
- November 1 - Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter