1905 in Canada

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 – 1905 Alberta 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

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