1905 in Canada

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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 Northernis complete to Edmonton
December 13 - 1905 Saskatchewan election: Walter Scott's Liberals win a majority in the first Saskatchewan election

January 21 - George Craig Laurence, physicist
January 28 - Ellen Fairclough, politician
February 8 - Louis-Philippe Pigeon, jurist
March 27 - Elsie MacGill, aerospace engineer
April 30 - John Peters Humphrey, principal drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
May 23 - Donald Fleming, politician
June 8 - Ralph Steinhauer, native leader
June 23 - Jack Pickersgill, politician
July 25 - Grace MacInnis, politician
August 1 - Helen Hogg-Priestley, astronomer
August 15 - E.K Brown, literary critic
November 1 - Paul-Émile Borduas, abstract painter
December 1 - Alex Wilson, track and field athlete (d. 1994)