1905 in Canada

1905 in Canada
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 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
Arts and literature
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 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)
Historical documents
Creation of provinces Saskatchewan and Alberta: details and Prime Minister Laurier's announcement
Call for Calgary to become Alberta capital
House of Commons committee chair has idea for local telephone services housed in post offices and provided and taxed by municipalities
Socialist Party brochure for Ontario election, with party platform
Mounties report to Ottawa on dance halls and prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon
McGill University principal addresses Canadian Club on role of university in commerce
Description of Peterborough Lift Lock on Trent Canal in Ontario
References
Years of the 20th century in Canada
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