1905 in Canada

Years in Canada:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
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Years:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908

Events from the year 1905 in Canada.

Incumbents

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 Governor of Keewatin – Daniel Hunter McMillan (until September 1)
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – Amédée E. Forget (until September 1)

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 Northern Railway is completed to Edmonton
December 13 – 1905 Saskatchewan election: Walter Scott's Liberals win a majority in the first Saskatchewan election

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 25 – Grace MacInnis, politician and feminist (d.1991)
August 1 – Helen Hogg-Priestley, astronomer
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)

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)

Creation of provinces Saskatchewan and Alberta: details and Prime Minister Laurier's announcement^[1]

Call for Calgary to become Alberta capital^[2]

House of Commons committee chair has idea for local telephone services housed in post offices and provided and taxed by municipalities^[3]

Socialist Party brochure for Ontario election, with party platform^[4]

Mounties report to Ottawa on dance halls and prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon^[5]

McGill University principal addresses Canadian Club on role of university in commerce^[6]

Description of Peterborough Lift Lock on Trent Canal in Ontario^[7]

^ "Two Provinces Created For The West[....]," Saskatoon Phoenix (February 24, 1905), pg. 1. Accessed 27 January 2020 http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/beg11.html Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Mass Meeting Tonight," Daily Herald (February 1, 1905). Accessed 27 January 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20190123192639/https://folklore.library.ualberta.ca/dspCitation.cfm?ID=136
^ "Inquiry into the Various Telephone Systems in Operation in Canada and Elsewhere" (March 20, 1905), Proceedings of the Select Committee on Telephone Systems; Vol. I, pgs. 2-3. Accessed 9 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1001_1_1/70?r=0&s=1
^ "Ontario Election Campaign;[...]The Socialist Party to Toronto Workingmen" Accessed 27 January 2020 http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-OHQ-EPHE-C-W-146&R=DC-OHQ-EPHE-C-W-146
^ "Letter from[...]Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Yukon Territory to[...]Ministor of Interior" Accessed 27 January 2020 https://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Curriculum%20Packets/Klondike/Documents/53.html
^ W. Peterson, Canadian Essays and Addresses (1915), pgs. 253-66. Accessed 27 January 2020 https://archive.org/stream/canadianessaysad00peteuoft#page/252/mode/2up
^ "Short Description of the Hydraulic Lock at Peterboro [sic], Ont." (January 14, 1905). Accessed 30 January 2020 http://digitalcollections.trentu.ca/exhibits/birdsall-rogers/zrmdesc.htm

Years in Canada:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908