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)
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