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EVENTS

'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.

's Liberals win a majority in the first Alberta election

November 24 - The Canadian Northern is complete to Edmonton

December 13 - 1905 Saskatchewan Election : Walter Scott's Liberals win a majority in the first Saskatchewan election

BIRTHS

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

DEATHS