1905 in Canada

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Years:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908

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 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 – 1st 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
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^[1]

Call for Calgary to become Alberta capital^[2]

House of Commons committee chair has idea for local telephone services housed in post offices and provided and taxed by municipalities^[3]

Socialist Party brochure for Ontario election, with party platform^[4]

Mounties report to Ottawa on dance halls and prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon^[5]

McGill University principal addresses Canadian Club on role of university in commerce^[6]

Description of Peterborough Lift Lock on Trent Canal in Ontario^[7]

References[]

^ "Two Provinces Created For The West[....]," Saskatoon Phoenix (February 24, 1905), pg. 1. Accessed 27 January 2020 http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/beg11.html Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Mass Meeting Tonight," Daily Herald (February 1, 1905). Accessed 27 January 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20190123192639/https://folklore.library.ualberta.ca/dspCitation.cfm?ID=136
^ "Inquiry into the Various Telephone Systems in Operation in Canada and Elsewhere" (March 20, 1905), Proceedings of the Select Committee on Telephone Systems; Vol. I, pgs. 2-3. Accessed 9 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1001_1_1/70?r=0&s=1
^ "Ontario Election Campaign;[...]The Socialist Party to Toronto Workingmen" Accessed 27 January 2020 http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-OHQ-EPHE-C-W-146&R=DC-OHQ-EPHE-C-W-146
^ "Letter from[...]Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Yukon Territory to[...]Ministor of Interior" Accessed 27 January 2020 https://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Curriculum%20Packets/Klondike/Documents/53.html
^ W. Peterson, Canadian Essays and Addresses (1915), pgs. 253-66. Accessed 27 January 2020 https://archive.org/stream/canadianessaysad00peteuoft#page/252/mode/2up
^ "Short Description of the Hydraulic Lock at Peterboro [sic], Ont." (January 14, 1905). Accessed 30 January 2020 http://digitalcollections.trentu.ca/exhibits/birdsall-rogers/zrmdesc.htm

[1] "Two Provinces Created For The West[....]," Saskatoon Phoenix (February 24, 1905), pg. 1. Accessed 27 January 2020 http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/beg11.html Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Mass Meeting Tonight," Daily Herald (February 1, 1905). Accessed 27 January 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20190123192639/https://folklore.library.ualberta.ca/dspCitation.cfm?ID=136

[3] "Inquiry into the Various Telephone Systems in Operation in Canada and Elsewhere" (March 20, 1905), Proceedings of the Select Committee on Telephone Systems; Vol. I, pgs. 2-3. Accessed 9 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1001_1_1/70?r=0&s=1

[4] "Ontario Election Campaign;[...]The Socialist Party to Toronto Workingmen" Accessed 27 January 2020 http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-OHQ-EPHE-C-W-146&R=DC-OHQ-EPHE-C-W-146

[5] "Letter from[...]Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Yukon Territory to[...]Ministor of Interior" Accessed 27 January 2020 https://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Curriculum%20Packets/Klondike/Documents/53.html

[6] W. Peterson, Canadian Essays and Addresses (1915), pgs. 253-66. Accessed 27 January 2020 https://archive.org/stream/canadianessaysad00peteuoft#page/252/mode/2up

[7] "Short Description of the Hydraulic Lock at Peterboro [sic], Ont." (January 14, 1905). Accessed 30 January 2020 http://digitalcollections.trentu.ca/exhibits/birdsall-rogers/zrmdesc.htm

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