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1905 in Canada
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Incumbents
Crown
Monarch
–
Edward VII
[
1
]
Federal government
Governor General
–
Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
Prime Minister
–
Wilfrid Laurier
Chief Justice
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Henri Elzéar Taschereau
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Quebec
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Parliament
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10th
(from 11 January)
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Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
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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 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
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Births
January to June
January 21 –
George Laurence
, nuclear physicist (d.
1987
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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 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
)
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
)
References
↑
Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011).
Canada's Constitutional Monarchy
. Dundurn. p.
235.
ISBN
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