1805 in Canada

Events from the year 1805 in Canada.

Incumbents

• Monarch: George III

Federal government

• Parliament of Lower Canada: 4th (starting January 9)
• Parliament of Upper Canada: 4th (starting February 1)

Governors

• Governor of the Canadas: Robert Milnes then Thomas Dunn
• Governor of New Brunswick: Thomas Carleton
• Governor of Nova Scotia: John Wentworth
• Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Erasmus Gower
• Governor of Prince Edward Island: Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres
• Governor of Upper Canada: Peter Hunter (until 21 August)

Events

• January 29 – 4th Parliament of Lower Canada session starts, ends April 27, 1808
• February 1 – 4th Parliament of Upper Canada session starts, ends May 21, 1808
• 100th Regiment of Foot (Prince Regent's County of Dublin Regiment) arrives in Nova Scotia
• Vermont passes an act to establish the line between it and Canada.

Births

• February 16 – Edmund Walker Head, Governor General (d.1868)
• August 26 – Joseph-Bruno Guigues, first bishop of the diocese of Bytown (Ottawa) (d.1874)
• December 8 – Amand Landry, farmer and politician (d.1877)

Full date unknown

• John Kent, Premier of Newfoundland (d.1872)

Deaths

• March 23 – Richard Dobie, an early Canadian businessman and a sometimes partner of Benjamin Frobisher (born 1731)

References