1905 in Canada

Events from the year 1905 in Canada.

Incumbents

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 24 – Frederick D. White becomes the first Commissioner of the Northwest Territories in Canada, and will serve until his death in 1918.
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

January 21 – George Laurence, nuclear physicist
January 28 – Ellen Fairclough, politician and first female member of the Canadian Cabinet
February 8 – Louis-Philippe Pigeon, judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
March 27 – Elsie MacGill, the world's first female aircraft designer
April 30 – John Peters Humphrey, legal scholar, jurist and human rights advocate
May 1 – Paul Desruisseaux, lawyer and politician
May 23 – Donald Fleming, politician, International Monetary Fund official and lawyer
June 8 – Ralph Steinhauer, native leader, first Aboriginal to become the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
June 23 – Jack Pickersgill, civil servant and politician

April 23 – Gédéon Ouimet, politician and 2nd Premier of Quebec
May 23 – Fletcher Bath Wade, politician and barrister
May 29 – William McDougall, lawyer, politician and a Father of Confederation
August 1 – John Brown, politician, miller, mining consultant and prospector
August 7 – Alexander Melville Bell, educator
September 8 – David Howard Harrison, farmer, physician, politician and 6th Premier of Manitoba
October 29 – Étienne Desmarteau, athlete and Olympic gold medallist