1905 in Canada
Canada-related events during the year of 1905
Events from the year 1905 in Canada .
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(July 2010 )
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
Full date unknown
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Historical documents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
1905 in North America
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