| 1901 | | Copper 16.5¢/lb., Silver 60¢/oz., Gold $20/oz. |
| 1901 | | Federal: The Geographic Board of Canada renames Crow’s Nest as “Crow Nest.” |
| 1901 | | Federal: Similkameen & Keremeos Railway receives charter. |
| 1901 | | Nelson, BC: CPR launches the tug Valhalla (153 tons). Sold in 1931. |
| 1901 | | Kimberley, B.C.: CPR builds station. |
| 1901 | | Blairmore, N-WT: RN-WMP establish a post. |
| 1901 | | Frank, N-WT: Knox Presbyterian Church raised, first church in “The Trough.” |
| 1901 | | Morrissey, BC: CPR builds a spur of the BC Southern 4 miles up to the CNP Coal mines in the Morrissey Creek valley. |
| 1901 | | B.C.: Dewdney Trail east from Princeton to Okanagan Valley converted to a waggon trail. |
| 1901 | | Rossland, BC: Central fire hall completed. |
| 1901 | | Ymir, BC: London and B.C. Goldfields, Limited installed an 80-stamp mill and a cyanide tailings treatment plant at Ymir mine. |
| 1901 | | B.C.: The British Columbia (Rossland and Slocan) Syndicate, Limited, organized the Snowshoe Gold and Copper Mines, Limited, capitalized to £250,000 to work the Snowshoe Group on Phœnix Mountain. |
| 1901 | | Creston, BC: First apple orchard established. |
| 1901 | | Wynndel, BC: The nearby Alice Group acquired by two principals in the Alberta and British Columbia Exploration Company, and the Lancaster and York Syndicate. |
| 1901 | | Fernie, B.C.: Albert Mutz, Fritz Sick et al re-erect the salvaged works of the Fort Steele Brewing Company. |
| 1901 | | B.C.: No. 7 mine begins halting production near Midway. |
| 1901 | | Lethbridge, N-WT: Fritz Sick builds a brewery. |
| 1901 | | Lethbridge, N-WT: Chinook Club founded. |
| 1901 | | District of Alberta, N-WT: “Hammerburg” subdivision laid out near Lethbridge. |
| 1901 | | Grand Forks, B.C.: Granby Consolidated installs a Gates converter in the smelter to reduce “matte” copper to 98.5% pure “blister” copper. |
| 1901 | | T.W. Holland receives a State of Washington charter for his Republic and Kettle River Railway. |
| 1901 | | Grand Forks, B.C.: Six-room school opens. |
| 1901 | | The Northwest Elevator Association changes name to Northwest Grain Dealers Assoc. |
| 1901 | January | B.C.: City of Nelson, BC, obtains a provincial licence to generate electricty on the Lower Kootenay. Immediately engaged by West Kootenay Power in court over location. |
| 1901 | Jan. 20 | B.C.: CP completes wharfs and docks at Sunshine Bay near Procter. |
| 1901 | Jan. 22 | London: Queen Victoria dies. Edward VII succeeds. |
| 1901 | Feb. 12 | District of Alberta, N-WT: John Lineham, A.P. Patrick and Geo. Leeson form The Rocky Mountain Development Company. |
| 1901 | Feb. 18 | Monday |
| 1901 | Feb. 18 | Greenwood, B.C.: British Columbia Copper blows in the first of the Anaconda Smelter’s furnaces. |
| 1901 | Feb. 19 | CNP Coal recapitalized to $3.5 million: J.J. Hill now owns 30%. |
| 1901 | Mar. 2 | George Mercer Dawson dead (1849). |
| 1901 | Spring | MT: J.J. Hill agrees to buy the Great Falls and Canada Railway. |
| 1901 | Apr.1 | Hall Mines re-organized as Hall Mining and Smelting Company. |
| 1901 | Apr. 24 | B.C.: CNP Coal receives a provincial charter for the Crows Nest Southern Railway Company. |
| 1901 | May | Great Northern Railway announces that it had acquired the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway the previous April. |
| 1901 | May 1 | Fernie, B.C.: CNP Coal begins selling residential building lots. |
| 1901 | May 8 | Northpost, WA.: Le Roi smelter workers out on strike. |
| 1901 | May 11 | B.C.: Provincial charters granted for Coast-Kootenay Railway, the Vancouver & Grand Forks Railway, the Midway & Vernon Railway (J.H. Senkler, A.P. Judge, Edgar Bloomfield) and the Kootenay Central Railway Company (Robert Leslie Thomas Galbraith, J.A. Harvey, Dr. Hugh Watts, J.B. Lagley, W.R. Ross, Dr. J.H. King). |
| 1901 | May 21 | Canada: Alien Labour Act receives royal assent in Ottawa. |
| 1901 | May 21 | Canada: CNP Coal withdrew its federal application for the Kootenay Lake Railway. |
| 1901 | May 23 | B.C.: T.W. Holland granted federal charter for Kettle River Valley Railway by 1 Edward VII chapter 68. Cascade, BC, to Carson, BC, and 50 miles up the Granby River valley: $1.5 million. |
| 1901 | May 23 | Canada: 1 Edward VII chapter 8 “An Act to provide for the payment of bounties on lead refined in Canada” offers $5/ton for the year beginning July 1, 1902 and dimishing until nothing offered for the year beginning July 1, 1907. Amended and extended until 1908 by 3 Edward VII chapter 31, September 8, 1903. |
| 1901 | May 23 | Canada: 1 Edward VII chapter 45 permits the Alberta Railway and Coal Company lease or sell any or all of its assets to the CPR. |
| 1901 | May 23 | Kootenay Central Railway incorporated with $1 million in capitalization. |
| 1901 | June | B.C.: Fernie Miners’ Union strikes CNP Coal. |
| 1901 | June 1 | B.C.: Village of Slocan incorporated. |
| 1901 | June 10 | Michel, BC: Fire destroys much of the residential district. |
| 1901 | June 14 | B.C.: City of Trail incorporated: Colonel E.S. Topping, mayor. |
| 1901 | July | B.C.: Government commissions Edgar Dewdney to find a railroad route through the Cascades. |
| 1901 | July | ID: Northport M&S is re-organized as the Northport Smelting and Refining Company and incorporated. Hdqtrs: Wallace. |
| 1901 | July 2 | District of Alberta, N-WT: Town of Cardston incororated. |
| 1901 | July 10 | District of Alberta, N-WT: Canadian North-west Irrigation Company and Jesse Knight sign agreement o construct sugar factory at Raymond. |
| 1901 | July 11 | Rossland, BC.: WFM Local No. 38 strike mines. Failure. |
| 1901 | August | “Cardiff,” BC: The Moyie Lumber Company sets up a mill on upper Moyie Lake. |
| 1901 | Aug. 1 | B.C.: Operations on the Bedlington and Nelson north of Creston Junction (Wynndel) suspended. |
| 1901 | Aug. 1 | Frank, N-WT.: postal office opens. |
| 1901 | Aug. 1 | MT: The Montana and Great Northern Railway buys the Great Falls and Canada from the Alberta Railway and Coal Co. |
| 1901 | Aug. 31 | Kettle River Valley Railway/Republic and Kettle River Railway begins construction toward Republic, Washington, from Grand Forks, BC. |
| 1901 | Sep. 3 | District of Alberta, N-WT: Blairmore incorporated as a Village. |
| 1901 | Sep. 10 | Frank, N-WT.: Celebration marking the founding of the town. |
| 1901 | October | Frank, N-WT.: Alexander Leitch opens first general store. |
| 1901 | October | Spokane, WA: Sullivan Group incorporates a townsite company for Marysville, B.C. |
| 1901 | Oct. 10 | Jaffray, BC: Post Offices licences local bureau to Chas. Duncan McNab. |
| 1901 | November | Canadian-American Coal and Coke Company formed. |
| 1901 | November | District of Alberta, N-WT: The Rocky Mountain Development Company began drilling the Discovery oil well on the future site of Oil City. |
| 1901 | Nov. 5 | B.C.: CP selects the first two of its 6 allowed sections of coal measures in the Elk River valley at what became Hosmer. |
| 1901 | Dec. 1 | Fairview, BC: The New Fairview Corporation begins operating a 10-stamp mill on the Stemwinder claim. |
| 1901 | Dec. 18 | Indian Head, N-WT: Territorial Grain Growers Association organized as a result of a meeting of regional farmers on this date. |
| 1901 | Dec. 31 | As of this date, the Kootenay Railway & Navigation Company operates the Kaslo and Slocan, the Kootenay Valley, and the Bedlington and Nelson Railways, and the International Navigation and Trading Company. |
| 1901 | End | Trail, B.C.: CP blows in two lead furnaces at the Canadian Smelting Works. |
| 1902 | | Michel, B.C.: Fire destroys much community. |
| 1902 | | Lethbridge, N-WT: Fire brigade professionalized. |
| 1902 | | Lethbridge, N-WT: Lethbridge Police Department founded. Ex-Mountie Thomas Lewis first constable. |
| 1902 | | District of Alberta, N-WT: Flume on the St. Mary“s Main Canal washed out. |
| 1902 | | District of Alberta, N-WT, and MT: Great falls and Canada / AR&C road to Coutts standardized. |
| 1902 | | B.C.: First full year of CNP Coal production in Morrissey Creek valley. |
| 1902 | | Christina Lake, B.C.: The Kutchem sawmill burns. |
| 1902 | | Frank, N-WT.: Canadian-American Coal and Coke builds tipple and an experimental battery of six coke ovens. |
| 1902 | | Frank, N-WT.: Two storey school built. |
| 1902 | | Cowley, N-WT.: Messrs. Murray and Grey build the Cowley Hotel. |
| 1902 | | Nelson, B.C.: Henry Rose hanged in the City gaol yard for the murder of J.J. Cole at Arrowhead. Last execution at Nelson. |
| 1902 | | Canada: Peter “the Lordly” Verigin arrives from Siberia. |
| 1902 | | CNP Coal gives up the idea of running Fernie as a company town. |
| 1902 | | Castlegar, B.C.: The Columbia and Western Railway builds station. |
| 1902 | | Nelson, B.C.: Post Office and Customs House completed. |
| 1902 | | Blairmore, N-WT.: Peter McLaren Lumber Company completes its new mill and begins production. |
| 1902 | | B.C.: W.E. Welby extends his stage service to Hedley from Penticton. |
| 1902 | | CPR completes Kootenay and Arrowhead Railway to Gerrard on Trout Lake and leases line in 1903. Abandoned in 1942. |
| 1902 | | Marysville, B.C.: Sullivan Group Mining Company begins building smelter. |
| 1902 | | Vermilion Forks Mining and Development Company lays out Princeton, BC, street grid. |
| 1902 | | Mackenzie, Mann and Company incorporated at Toronto, ON. |
| 1902 | | Wm. Aldridge brings in a rig to drill on his petroleum property in s-w Alberta. |
| 1902 | | B.C.: Yellowstone mine on Sheep Creek exhausted and mill shut down. |
| 1902 | | Greenwood, B.C.: Courthouse raised. |
| 1902 | | Kimberley, B.C.: North Star school opens. Miss C. Hall. |
| 1902 | | Phœnix, B.C.: Granby Consolidated buys Old Ironsides and Knob Hill. |
| 1902 | | Phœnix Mountain, B.C.:Hall Mines leases the Emma from William Mackenzie, Donald Mann and W.T. Smith. |
| 1902 | | Grand Forks, B.C.: Fraser’s Brewery shut down. |
| 1902 | | Macleod, N-WT.: Union Bank of Canada opens branch. |
| 1902 | | Macleod, N-WT.: Federal courthouse raised. |
| 1902 | | Flagstone, B.C.: Fred Douglas and Frank Downs establish logging buisness on Crows Nest Southern R/W line. |
| 1902 | Jan. 2? | Le Roi Mining and Smelting Company declares bankruptcy. |
| 1902 | Jan. 14 | Granby Consolidated activated new converter to refine 98.5% pure copper “blister” from 50% pure copper matte. |
| 1902 | Jan. 18 | CPR launches York (134 tons) at Okanagan Landing. Pre-fabricated in Toronto. Sold to Kettle Valley Railway in March, 1920. Retired 1932. |
| 1902 | Jan. 20 | Granby Consolidated sends first shipment of blister to market. |
| 1902 | Feb. 3 | Granby Consolidated blows in No. 3 furnace at Grand Forks smelter. |
| 1902 | March | James Wilkes of the Western Federation of Miners comes to the Pass to enrol the Fernie Miners’ Union into the Federation as District 7. |
| 1902 | Mar. 13 | Kettle River Valley Railway opened between Grand Forks and Pelham, Washington. |
| 1902 | Mar. 17 | Granby Consolidated blows in No. 4 furnace at Grand Forks smelter. |
| 1902 | Mar. 20 | CPR bridge at Castlegar, BC, opened to traffic after 2 years construction. |
| 1902 | Spring | Montreal and Boston Copper Company, Limited, buys the Boundary Falls smelter near Greenwood, BC. |
| 1902 | April | Provincial Progressive Party formed at Kamloops, BC. |
| 1902 | April | Fernie, BC.: commercial city block in the downtown core burns. |
| 1902 | Apr. 12 | Kettle River Valley Railway/Republic and Kettle River Railway (“Republic and Grand Forks Railroad”) opened from Grand Forks, BC to Republic, WA. |
| 1902 | Apr. 19 | Memorial Hospital of Pincher Creek granted federal incorporation. |
| 1902 | Apr. 28 | International Coal and Coke Company, Limited, incorporated in the State of Washington by E.J. Dyer, et al. |
| 1902 | May | City of Trail, BC, establishes a ferry service across the Columbia. |
| 1902 | May 15 | Federal: Canadian Northern Telegraph Company founded. |
| 1902 | May 16 | Federal: Canadian Northern Express Company founded. |
| 1902 | May 19 | Federal: By an Order-in-Council confirms its choice of its allowed 50,000-acre coal reserve in the Elk River valley area. |
| 1902 | May 22 | Coal Creek Collieries, B.C.: 1900 hours: blow-out at No. 2 Mine: 128 dead. |
| 1902 | May 23 | Federal: Royal assent granted 1 Edward VII chapter 8, “An Act to provide for the payment of bounties on lead refined in Canada” to a limit of $100,000 per producer per year. Beginning July 1, 1902, a per ton bounty of $5 offered, diminishing by $1 per ton each succeeding year. Amended by 3 Edwd. VII chap. 31, 1902/09/08. |
| 1902 | May 31 | End of Boer War. |
| 1902 | June | Greenwood, BC.: B.C. Copper blows in Anaconda Smelter’s No. 2 furnace. |
| 1902 | June | Nelson, BC.: Hall Mining and Smelting quit mining the Silver King. Leased to M.S. Davys. |
| 1902 | June 7 | WA: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway/Washington Great Nothern Railway in operation from Republic to Marcus. |
| 1902 | June 19 | Boundary Falls, B.C.: First furnace activated in smelter. |
| 1902 | June 20 | B.C.: International Transportation Company voluntarily liquidated. |
| 1902 | June 25 | B.C.: WFM strikes CNP Coal operations. Ends in failure on August 4. |
| 1902 | June 28 | B.C.: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway/Washington Great Nothern Railway’s first passenger train to Cooper’s Wye, south of Grand Forks. |
| 1902 | July 1 | B.C.: Canal Flats, B.C.: Captain Francis Patrick Armstrong sails the North Star northbound through Baillie-Grohman’s ditch. |
| 1902 | July 9 | B.C.: Kootenai River Transportation Company, Limited, disincorporated. |
| 1902 | July 9 | Lethbridge. N-WT: Floods wash away the last vestiges of the Alberta. |
| 1902 | July 10 | Elko, B.C.: The steel of the Great Northern’s Crows Nest Southern arrives. |
| 1902 | July 16 | N-WT: Charles Plummer Hill acquired mineral rights to the property which would ultimately host the Hillcrest mine. |
| 1902 | Aug. 2 | The Rossland Power Company, Limited, incorporated. |
| 1902 | Aug. 25 | Rossland, B.C.: Fire destroys upper Spokane Street. |
| 1902 | Aug. 28 | N-WT: Plan of the “City of Blairmore” registered. |
| 1902 | September | B.C.: The Crows Nest Southern reaches Swindon near Morrissey. |
| 1902 | September | Moyie, B.C.: St. Eugene mine closed after a year of maintenance. |
| 1902 | September | Waterton, AB.: Rocky Mountain Development Company’s Discovery well strikes oil. |
| 1902 | September | Morrissey, B.C.: First company cottages on the townsite occupied. |
| 1902 | Sep. 27 | William Carlin, Peter Lund, John Breckenridge, Alfred Doyle, et al, incorporate the Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber Company. |
| 1902 | October | Fairview, B.C.: The “Big Teepee” burns. |
| 1902 | Oct. 20 | Edmonton, N-WT: The first train crosses the North Saskatchewan River on the Low Level Bridge from Strathcona on the rails of the Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway. |
| 1902 | November | B.C.: Workers briefly strike CNP Coal operations. |
| 1902 | November | B.C.: CP had chosen its remaining four coal sections in the Elk River valley allowed under the tripartite Agreement of 1897. |
| 1902 | Nov. 9 | Grand Forks, BC: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway crosses the Kettle River Valley Railway: KRVR retaliates by parking an old locomotive on the crossing. |
| 1902 | Nov. 12 | Grand Forks, B.C.: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway built into town. |
| 1902 | Nov. 21 | B.C. political: Edward Gawler Prior replaces Jas. Dunsmuir as premier. |
| 1902 | Dec. 24 | D.C. Corbin, U.S. Senator George Turner, J.H. McGraw, Jacob Furth and C.S. Bihler, incorporated the Spokane and Kootenai Railway Company in the State of Washington. |
| 1902 | Dec. 25 | B.C.: Avalanche on Sunset Mountain above the West Arm of Kootenay Lake sweeps away the bunkhouse of the Molly Gibson mine, killing nine. |
| 1902 | End | T.W. Holland retires from the “Republic and Grand Forks Railroad.” |
