Events from the year 1905 in Canada.
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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)
- 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)
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]
"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 W. Peterson, Canadian Essays and Addresses (1915), pgs. 253-66. Accessed 27 January 2020