Permanent historical records · Updated 2026-11-03

2005 in Canada

Explore 5 historical events and records for Canada in 2005.

Historical records for Canada in 2005

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May

Rock by the River

Adams, Bryan · Arts / Art

Adams & cousin Johnny Armitage raise 1.3M pounds from a concert & auction entitled "Rock by the River" for the Royal Marsden Hospital in London

July

Live 8

Adams, Bryan · Barrie · Arts / Art

Adams performs at Live 8s Canadian performance in Barrie, Ontario

September

Prairie Wind

Young, Neil · Arts / Popular Music

Releases Prairie Wind, recorded after a health scare and centred on memory, family and mortality.

Other events (month unknown)

Binary Black Hole Simulation

Pretorius, Frans · Physicist · Science / Physics

Achieves the first successful full numerical simulation of the inspiral and merger of two black holes through the final ringdown.

Direct Thermal Emission from TrES-1

Charbonneau, David · Cambridge Massachusetts · Astronomer · Science / Astronomy

Leads Spitzer observations detecting infrared light from exoplanet TrES-1.

How these records were prepared

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