1905 in Canada

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 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 (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 4 – Marie-Thérèse Paquin, pianist (d. 1997)
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)

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)