1805 in Canada

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

  Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 4th
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 4th

  Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Erasmus Gower
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

  Events

• January 29 – 4th Parliament of Lower Canada session starts, ends April 27, 1808
• February 1 – 4th Parliament of Upper Canada session starts, ends May 21, 1808
• 100th Regiment of Foot arrives in Nova Scotia
• Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Ocean.
• Yurii Lisianski sails to Canton with the first Russian cargo of furs to be sent directly to China.
• Vermont passes an act to establish the line between that State and Canada.

  Births

• February 16 – Edmund Walker Head, Governor
• August 26 – Joseph-Bruno Guigues, first bishop of the diocese of Bytown
• December 8 – Amand Landry, farmer and politician

  Full date unknown

• John Kent, Premier of Newfoundland

  Deaths

• March 23 – Richard Dobie, an early Canadian businessman and a sometimes partner of Benjamin Frobisher.