1905 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1905
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Events from the year 1905 in Canada.
Incumbents
Crown
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[2]
Call for Calgary to become Alberta capital[3]
House of Commons committee chair has idea for local telephone services housed in post offices and provided and taxed by municipalities[4]
Socialist Party brochure for Ontario election, with party platform[5]
Mounties report to Ottawa on dance halls and prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon[6]
McGill University principal addresses Canadian Club on role of university in commerce[7]
Description of Peterborough Lift Lock on Trent Canal in Ontario[8]
References
- ^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.
- ^ "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
- ^ "Ontario Election Campaign;(...)The Socialist Party to Toronto Workingmen" Accessed 27 January 2020
- ^ "Letter from(...)Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Yukon Territory to(...)Ministor of Interior" Accessed 27 January 2020
- ^ W. Peterson, Canadian Essays and Addresses (1915), pgs. 253-66. Accessed 27 January 2020
- ^ "Short Description of the Hydraulic Lock at Peterboro (sic), Ont." (January 14, 1905). Accessed 30 January 2020
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