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Period 1890 – 1893 for South-western Canada
- 1890
B.C.: CPR agrees to lease the Shuswap and Okanagan Railway for twenty-five years upon its completion. - 1890
B.C.: Captain T.D. Shorts launches the City of Vernon steam barge onto Lake Okanagan. - 1890
WA: W.R. Rust buys Dennis Ryan’s Tacoma Smelter and incorporates the Tacoma Smelting and Refining Company. - 1890
B.C.: Joe Wilson engaged to widen the packtrail between Taghum and the Columbia River into a waggon road. - 1890
B.C.: R.W. (Bob) Yuill contracted build a trail from Taghum to “Stanley,” now Nelson, BC. - 1890
B.C.: J.A. Manly purchases land on “Grande Prairie” from C.S. McRae. - 1890
I.R. 148A, N-WT.: John Chantler McDougall orders John Maclean to close the Methodist mission at Lower Agency. - 1890
B.C. amends its Constitutional Act of 1871 to split the Kootenay Electoral District into two ridings: Jas. Baker continues as MPP for East Riding, J.M. Kellie in the West. - 1890
Marysville, B.C.: Wm. Meacham first register land on the future townsite. - 1890
Lethbridge, N-WT: Opera house completed. - 1890
B.C.: Penticton launched onto Lake Okanagan. Screw steamer of 33 tons owned by Thos. Ellis and Eli Le Quime. Built and captained by T.D. Shorts. - 1890
B.C.: Frank Fitzgerald establishes a ferry on Slocan River to carry the Kootenay Valley Trunk Trail—Sproat’s Landing to Nelson. - 1890
B.C.: Nelson Sawmill begins operation. J.H. Tolson and the chief engineer of the Silver King mine, M.S. Davys, principals. - 1890
B.C.: Davies-Sayward Mill and Land Company, Limited, builds sawmill at Pilot Bay. Closed 1903. - 1890
B.C.: R.L. Cawston, Thomas Ellis and Captain Jno. Irving of Victoria incorporate the British Columbia Cattle Company. - 1890
Columbus, OH: United Mine Workers of America founded. - 1890
Lethbridge, N-WT: Territorial government builds a bridge over the Belly. - 1890
Lethbridge, N-WT: Galt No. 3 begun. - 1890
Lethbridge, N-WT: Reading Room and Library Society established with N-WC&N / AR&C sponsorship. - 1890
Lethbridge, N-WT.: Society of Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus open a school. Father Van Tighem dedicates their convent. - 1890
I.R. 147A, N-WT.: Anglicans open St. Cyprian’s Residential School on the Piikani reserve. - 1890 Circa
B.C.: Jack King stakes the Alice near what is today Wynndel. - 1890 Jan. 1
The Great Northern leases the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway for 999 years beginning January 31, 1890. - 1890 Jan. 1
The Alberta Railway & Coal Company takes over operation of the Northwestern Coal & Navigation Company railroad. - 1890 Jan. 21
Columbia & Kootenay Steam Navigation Company incorportated in B.C. - 1890 Feb. 27
James Baker, the Chairman of B.C.’s Standing Committee on Railways proposed amending the Crow’s Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Act to extend the completion dates. Baker part-owner of the CN&KL. - 1890 Mar. 4
The B.C. provincial Standing Committee on Railways rejects D.C. Corbin’s proposal to build his proposed Kettle River Valley Railroad from the Columbia to the Coast. - 1890 Mar. 5
Federal political: The Board of Railway Commissioners rejects D.C. Corbin’s application to build the Kettle River Valley Railroad stating that cross-Boundary railroad charters were not in the Dominion’s best interests. - 1890 Spring
B.C.: Whitehead, McLean and McKay crews begin building the Columbia and Kootenay Railway. - 1890 Spring
Shelby, MT: Fort Benton Construction Company crews begin laying Great Falls and Canada rail towards Sweetgrass, MT. - 1890 Mar. 26
53 Victoria Chapter 85, “An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Alberta Railway and Coal Company,” permitts the AR&C to reduce the gauge of its Montana-bound branch line to three feet. - 1890 Apr. 2
MT: Shelby-Sweetgrass reach of the Great Falls and Canada Railway opened. - 1890 Apr. 15
N-WT: Lieutenant-governor Edgar Dewdney turns the sod on the Calgary and Edmonton Railway (C&E). - 1890 Apr. 24
N-WT.: With the passage of 53 Vic., chap. 84, the C&E buys the interests of both the Calgary, Alberta and Montana Railway, and the North-Western Railway Company of Canada. - 1890 Apr. 25
I.R. 146, N-WT.: Isapo-Muxika (Chief Crowfoot) of the Siksika nation dies of tuberculosis at Blackfoot Crossing. - 1890 Apr. 24
B.C. political: Province passes the Constitution Amendment Act which divides the Kootenay District into the East Kootenay and West Kootenay Districts. - 1890 Apr. 29
Crow’s Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Act amended allowing a change in directorship. Completion dates reset. - 1890 May
Lethbridge, N-WT: Donald Grant & Co. begin laying AR&C rails southwards towards Coutts. - 1890 May
Revelstoke, B.C.: C&KSN launches Lytton (451 tons). Cost $40,000. Dismantled 1902. - 1890 May 16
Owned by Jas. Ross, Herbert Holt, Wm. Mackenzie and Don. Mann, the Calgary and Edmonton Railway is federally enchartered to construct a line of rail from Calgary to Edmonton, from Edmonton into the Peace River Country, and from Calgary to the Boundary via Fort Macleod. - 1890 May 20
WA: D.C. Corbin pushes his Spokane Falls and Northern Railway to Marcus on the Columbia. - 1890 June 13
B.C. political: John Robson returned as the premier. - 1890 June 18
Lethbridge, N-WT: Charles Magrath completes a [re]survey of townsite. - 1890 Summer
B.C.: E.S. Topping and Frank Hanna pre-empt property at the mouth of Trail Creek. - 1890 July 2
B.C.: Joe Moris and Joe Bourgeois stake claims on Red Mountain at what is now Rossland. - 1890 July 3
U.S.A.: Sherman Silver Purchase Act enacted in U.S. congress. Required the U.S. mint to buy 4.5 million ounces of silver per month. - 1890 July 3
Columbia River, WA. & B.C.: Lytton undertook her first revenue earning voyage. - 1890 July 3
U.S.A.: State of Idaho admitted to Union as 43rd state. - 1890 July 17
Nelson, B.C.: Joe Moris and Joe Bourgeois register the Center Star, War Eagle, Idaho and Virginia claims on Red Mountain. Eugene Sayer Topping registers the Le Roi. - 1890 July 19
Lethbridge, N-WT: Plebicite on incorporation. - 1890 July 21
Calgary, N-WT: First spike driven on the Calgary and Edmonton Railway. - 1890 Aug. 15
WA: D.C. Corbin formally opens his Spokane Falls and Northern Railway between Spokane and the Little Dalles. - 1890 Aug. 15
B.C.: Lytton begins scheduled service between Revelstoke and the Little Dalles to connect with the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway to Spokane on the Northern Pacific, and, from 1892, the Great Northern, mainlines. - 1890 Aug. 20
CPR leases Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company’s railroad for 999 years. - 1890 October
B.C.: Sisters of Providence build and staff school at St. Eugene’s Mission. - 1890 Oct. 1
N-WT: Alberta Railway and Coal Company (AR&C) completes its line between Lethbridge and Coutts to connect to its Great Falls and Canada Railway at the Boundary. - 1890 Oct. 22
Lethbridge, N-WT: First AR&C train of coal departs for Montana. - 1890 Oct. 24
N-WT: Father Van Tighem drives the last spike in the AR&C Lethbridge-Coutts rail line. - 1890 Nov. 29
N-WT: Ordinance 24 of the First Legislative Assembly of the N-WT, “An Order to Incorporate the Town of Lethbridge,” receives royal assent and confirms civic bounds. - 1890 Nov. 29
N-WT: Order-in-Council No. 23, “An Ordinance to Incorporate the Lethbridge Waterworks and Electric Light Company,” receives royal assent. Elliott Torrance Galt, Charles Alexander Magrath, Charles Courselles McCaul, Charles Frederick Pringle Conybeare, and John Galt. - 1890 December
HBC buys the I.G. Baker store in Fort Macleod, N-WT. - 1890 Dec. 8
N-WT: AR&C’s Lethbridge-Great Falls line opened for business. - 1891
Granite City, B.C.: Fifteen thousand dollar’s worth of platinum found over the years 1891, ’92 and ’93. - 1891
B.C.: “Stanley”-based merchants begin building a waggon road up the Slocan River towards Slocan Lake from the Columbia and Kootenay Railway and the Kootenay Valley Trunk Trail. - 1891
“Stanley,” B.C.: Nelson Brick Company formed. - 1891
Dewdney Trail west from Trail Creek Landing, BC, repaired. - 1891
B.C.: Twelve-foot wide waggon road completed from “Stanley” to the Silver King. - 1891
“Stanley,” B.C.: Deluge Hook and Ladder Company organized: E.C. Arthur, president. - 1891
B.C.: “Stanley” connected to Spokane by telegraph. - 1891
“Stanley,” B.C.: Government wharf completed. - 1891
Fort Macleod, N-WT.: Acheson Gosford Irvine replaces Wm. Pocklington as Indian Agent for Kainai and Piikani. - 1891
Stand Off, I.R. 148A, N-WT.: Reverend Frank Swainson replaces Reverend Sam Trivett as principal of St. Paul’s Residential School. - 1891
Stand Off, I.R. 148A, N-WT.: Girls’ residence completed at St. Paul’s. - 1891
Lethbridge, N-WT: Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt funds the establishment of a hospital. - 1891
Lethbridge, N-WT: Bell Telephone Company installs a system. - 1891
B.C.: Kootenay (British Columbia) Smelting and Trading Syndicate builds a small smelter near Golden. - 1891
B.C.: “Maryville” prospectors’ camp established on E.N. La France’s pre-emption on east shore of Kootenay Lake. - 1891
B.C.: Thomas Wall stakes the Snow King on La France Creek on the east shore of Kootenay Lake. - 1891
N-WT: Dr. A.R.C. Selwyn, director of the Geological Survey of Canada, tours the West. - 1891
Procter’s Landing, B.C.: Thomas G. Procter buys land and raises what would become the Outlet Hotel. - 1891
Bonner’s Ferry, ID: Spokane (400 tons) built by G.R. Gray and launched. Burned 1895. - 1891
WA: Great Northern buys Charles King’s and Nelson Bennett’s Fairhaven and Southern Railway. - 1891
Pincher Creek, N-WT.: population 150 or so. - 1891 January
Lethbridge, N-WT: Central School opened. - 1891 Jan. 15
N-WT: Corporation of the Town of Lethbridge proclaimed. - 1891 February
Lethbridge, N-WT: C.A. Magrath elected mayor. - 1891 Feb. 4
Gustavus Blin Wright, C.T. Dupont, P.C. Dunlevy, C.G. Major and H.S. Mason provincially incorporate the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway Company for Daniel Chase Corbin. - 1891 Feb. 9
Father C.J.-B.F. Pandosy (OMI) dies. - 1891 Feb. 14
Blaine, WA: Silver spikes driven to open both the New Westminster Southern Railway from the Boundary to Liverpool (Brownsville) on the Fraser River’s south shore opposite New Westminster, and the Fairhaven and Southern Railway from the Boundary to Bellingham. - 1891 Mar. 5
Federal Election: J.A. Macdonald and Conservatives re-elected to power in Ottawa. - 1891 Mar. 5
Federal Election: Edgar Dewdney re-elected to his Parliamentry seat for Assiniboia East (resigns 1892). - 1891 Mar. 5
Federal Election: John Andrew Mara (Conservative) elected MP for the District of Yale, B.C. - 1891 Mar. 13
Lethbridge, N-WT: By-law No. 2 passed providing for the organization of a fire brigade and the raising of old Fire Hall No. 1. - 1891 Mar. 19
I.G. Baker sells Alberta District assets to Hudson’s Bay Coy. - 1891 Spring
Balfour, B.C.: Charles Wesley Busk opens the Balfour House Hotel. - 1891 Spring
Spokane, WA: Colonel W.W. and George Turner, Colonel W.W Ridpath, G.M. Forster, Oliver Durant, Colonel I.N. Peyton, and W.J. Harris form the Le Roi Gold Mining Company and buy the Le Roi claim on Red Mountain for $30,000. - 1891 Spring
Lethbridge, N-WT: AR&C sells its sawmill to the Mormons who remove it to Cardston. - 1891 April
B.C.: Ross Thompson arrives at Red Mountain Camp. - 1891 ?Apr. 12?
Crow’s Nest and Kootenay Lake Railway Act re-written to transfer assets to the British Columbia Southern Railway and extend its mandate to build from the Corwsnest Pass through to the Coast. - 1891 Apr. 13
Kootenay (later, British Columbia) Smelting and Trading Syndicate smelter at Revelstoke begins first ore roast. - 1891 Apr. 19
B.C.: J.W. Dow filed a pre-emption to 120 acres on what is now the townsite of Creston. - 1891 Apr. 20
B.C.: F.G. Little pre-empted property adjacent to J.W. Dow at what is now Creston. - 1891 Apr. 20
B.C.: Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Coal and Railway Company receives provincial charter. - 1891 Apr. 20
B.C.: Vernon and Nelson Telephone Company enchartered provincially. - 1891 ?Apr. 22?
B.C.: The Alberta and British Columbia Exploration Company, Limited, incorporated provincially. Capitalized to £20,000. - 1891 May 27
Canada: Prime Minister Macdonald suffers a stroke. - 1891 May 28
Deadwood, B.C.: Richard Thompson and William McCormick staked the Mother Lode. - 1891 May 31
B.C.: CP opens Columbia and Kootenay Railway between Sproat’s Landing and Nelson. - 1891 June 6
Ottawa: Sir John A. Macdonald dies at 2015 hrs. - 1891 June 11
Stanley/Nelson, B.C.: C&KSN launches the Nelson (496 tons). Burned as climax to the Chahko Mika celebration in 1914. - 1891 June 16
Canada: John Joseph Caldwell Abbott succeeds as Conservative prime minister. - 1891 June 16
Canada political: Edgar Dewdney appointed Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs. - 1891 June 22
B.C.: The Le Roi Mining and Smelting Company incorporated provincially, $2.5 million in capital, headquarters at Trail Creek Landing, BC: president, G.M. Forster - 1891 July
N-WT: Walrond Ranche Company evicts Dunbar family from their farm. - 1891 July 15
Strathcona, N-WT: On the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River opposite Edmonton, Jas. Ross drives last spike on the Calgary and Edmonton Railway (C&E). - 1891 July 20
Revelstoke, B.C.: Kootenay (later, British Columbia) Smelting and Trading Syndicate smelter begins smelting. - 1891 July 23
CP takes over operation of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway. - 1891 July 25
Phœnix Mountain, B.C.: Henry White and Matthew Hotter respectively stake the Knob Hill and Old Ironsides properties. - 1891 July 31
North-Western Coal and Navigation Company extinguished, its assets and debts transferred to the Alberta Railway and Coal Company. - 1891 August
Lethbridge, N-WT: Malcolm Mckenzie opens McKenzie House. - 1891 Aug. 1
N-WT: First spike driven in southern extension of C&E. - 1891 Aug. 4
Lethbridge, N-WT: Fire brigade organized. - 1891 Aug. 10
Strathcona, N-WT: First train to travel the C&E arrives. - 1891 Aug. 23
N-WT: Regular service begins on C&E. - 1891 Aug. 24
Dr. A.R.C. Selwyn of the Dominion Geological Survey in the Flathead River valley sampling the crude oil. - 1891 Aug. 20
Little Dalles, WA: Maiden voyage of C&KSN Columbia (534 tons) built in Portland and assembled by A. Watson at Little Dalles. Burned 1894. - 1891 Autumn
Lethbridge, N-WT: School opened in “Slavtown.” - 1891 Autumn
Okanagan valley, B.C.: Lord Aberdeen buys the Coldstream Ranche of brothers Chas. A. and Forbes George Vernon. - 1891 September
MT: Great Northern Railway builds over Marias Pass in Rockies. - 1891 Sep. 9
Slocan Mountains, B.C.: Eli Carpenter and J.L. Seaton staked the fabulous Payne claim. - 1891 Sep. 18
Northport, WA: The Spokane Falls and Northern arrives. - 1891 ?Sep. 26?
Forbes George Vernon forms the Alberta and British Columbia Exploration Company, Limited. Voluntarily liquidates in 1900. - 1891 October
Midway, BC: No. 7 claim staked nearby. - 1891 Oct. 1
“Stanley,” BC: Jennie Rath convenes classes in the brand-new school. - 1891 Oct. 10
Federal political: C.A. Magrath proclaimed elected to the N-W Territorial Assembly in Regina. - 1891 Nov. 17
at Golden, BC: The Galena Mining and Smelting Company granted federal land upon which to build its smelter. Never fired. S.S. Fowler, Calgary money, and George Alexander of Kootenay Lake Trading Company. - 1891 December
N-WT: The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints leases 1125 square miles of AR&C land with the option to buy. - 1891 Dec. 7
Lethbridge, N-WT: Fire guts several CBD buildings. - 1891 Winter
Jennings, MT: Annerly constructed by the Upper Kootenay Navigation Company of Walter Jones and H.S. DePuy. - 1891 End
B.C.: Aided by the Honourable James Baker, MPP, the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway receives an unsubsidized provincial charter. - 1892
Revelstoke, B.C.: British Columbia Smelting and Trading Syndicate abandons smelter. - 1892
B.C.: Peter McIntyre buys irrigable land near today’s Oliver from the J.C. Haynes estate. - 1892
The Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway granted a provincial subsidy of 10,240 acres of land per mile of laid rail. - 1892
CPR announces intention to build a line of railroad through the Crow’s Nest Pass into BC’s West Kootenay. - 1892
Grand Forks, B.C.: The Kettle River School opens. - 1892
Grand Forks, B.C.: Post Office opens a bureau. - 1892
Federal political: Parliament narrowly upholds the legality of the Walrond’s action in evicting the Dunbar family, despite the latter having a valid patent to their homestead. - 1892
B.C.: Louis Eholt sells his ranch at what is now Midway to R.C. Adams and associates. Eholt settles at what became Eholt in the upper Boundary Creek valley. - 1892
B.C.: R.A. Brown stakes the Sunset claim on Copper Mountain. - 1892
Stand Off, I.R. 148A, N-WT.: Rob’t Nathaniel Wilson buys David Lambert’s trading post. - 1892
I.R. 148A, N-WT.: Heavy Gun opens his coal mine. - 1892
I.R. 148A. N-WT.: Dept. of Indian Affairs subdivides part of the Kainai Reserve into 80-acre plots with the idea of transferring them to the private ownership of Reserve residents. - 1892
N-WT: The James Carney family settles on “Cowley Flats.” - 1892
N-WT: Liquor Licence Ordinance enacted by legislature of N-WT allowing for the limited sale of alcohol in the four provisional districts. - 1892
Ainsworth, BC: Nelson and Lardo Steam Navigation Co. launches City of Ainsworth. Foundered 1898. - 1892
B.C.: Mr. Stanton inaugurates stage service between Oroville, WA, and Penticton, BC. - 1892
Osoyoos, BC: The Post Office opens a bureau and names T.J. Kruger as post master. - 1892
Camp McKinney, BC: The Post Office closes its bureau. - 1892
Bonners Ferry, ID.: The Spokane built and launched. - 1892
B.C.: Forerunner of the Colonization Road south down the Rocky Mountain Trench from Golden on the CP Mainline completed. - 1892
on Boundary Creek, B.C.: Spokane and Great Northern Mining Company set up a two-stamp mill and commenced crushing ore from the American Boy property. - 1892
B.C.: “Stanley” officially renamed “Nelson.” - 1892
Canmore, N-WT: H.W. McNeill and Company opens a bituminous mine woth CPR backing. - 1892
Lethbridge, N-WT: Galt No. 3 becomes operational. Worked till 1924. - 1892
Lethbridge, N-WT: The re-organized Lethbridge Waterworks and Electric Light Company begins generating and distributing electricity. - 1892
E.T. Galt, et al, receive federal permission to extend Alberta Railway and Coal Company trackage from Lethbridge to Hope through the Crowsnest Pass. - 1892
Stanley/Nelson, BC: Messrs. Allen and Applewhaite open a private bank. - 1892
I.R. 147A, N-WT: Big Swan opens a stopping house on the Piikani reserve on the Fort Macleod-Pincher Creek Trail. - 1892 January
B.C.: Ross Thompson files for a 160 acre pre-emption on Red Mountain. - 1892 Jan. 2
Stanley/Nelson, BC: The Bank of Montreal opens an office. - 1892 Jan. 11
Federal, political: Honourable J.G. Haggart appointed Minister of Railways and Canals. - 1892 Jan. 25
Regina, N-WT: Assent granted to Territorial Legislative Assembly Ordinace No. 18 of 1891-1892, An Ordinance Respectine the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors and the Issue of Licenses Thereof. Prohibition ended in the N-WT. - 1892 Feb. 10
Lethbridge, N-WT: Application made to incorporate the Lethbridge Turf and Athletic Association. - 1892 Feb. 29
Calgary, N-WT: Minister of the Interior, Edgar Dewdney, informs Ranchers that they could buy one tenth of their current holdings for $2.00 per acre: the remainder could be re-leased, but with the understanding this it would be subject to forfeit at the government’s whim. - 1892 March
B.C.: Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company hire Captain J.W. Troup as manager. - 1892 March
N-WT: C.O. Card of the Mormons proposes an irrigation project to the AR&C. - 1892 March
Stanley/Nelson, BC: The Bank of British Columbia opens an office. - 1892 March
Lethbridge, N-WT: Fire destroys four downtown businesses. - 1892 Mar. 12
Bonner’s Ferry, ID: Great Northern steel arrives. First train arrives May 18. - 1892 Mar. 31
Lethbridge, N-WT: Lethbridge Fire Brigade No. 1 established. - 1892 Spring
B.C.: The Nakusp and Slocan Railway (N&S) receives B.C. charter. - 1892 Spring
B.C.: John Hendry, Alexander Ewan, J.D. Munn and Robert Irving granted a B.C. charter for the Kaslo and Slocan Railway (K&S). - 1892 Spring
WA: GN begins laying its mainline up into the Cascades from Everett. - 1892 Apr. 23
B.C.: The Nelson Electric Light Company incorporated. - 1892 Apr. 23
B.C.: The Consumers Waterworks Company at Nelson incorporated. - 1892 Apr. 24
AB: Begins a torrential all-night rain in southern Alberta, which turned to snow driven by a bitter north wind. Livestock losses significant. - 1892 May
B.C.: Grubstaked by mining entrepreneur Jas. Cronin of Spokane, Patrick Sullivan and Michael Holland begin their explorations of the East Kootenay region. - 1892 May 12
B.C.: The Shuswap and Okanagan Railway opens for business. - 1892 May 28
WA: First GN through-train arrives in Hillyard, Spokane. - 1892 May 28
B.C. political: James Baker appointed B.C. Minister of Education and Immigration. - 1892 June 1
Spokane, WA: GN steel laid to Union Station. - 1892 June 2
Nelson, BC: First C&K passenger train arrives. - 1892 June 7
Federal political: D.C. Corbin informed that in one year he would receive permission to build his Spokane Falls and Northern/Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway across the Boundary. - 1892 June 15
B.C.: Shuswap & Okanagan Railway (S&O), 51 miles from Sicamous to Okanagan Landing, completed and awarded provincial subsidy of $200,000. - 1892 Summer
B.C.: Joe Bourgeois and Jim Langhill stake the North Star. - 1892 June 29
B.C. political: Premier Robson dead. - 1892 July 2
B.C. political: Theodore Davie selected the dead Robson as conservative premier of B.C. - 1892 July 9
55-56 Victoria, Chapter 30, “An Act respecting the Alberta Railway and Coal Company,” permitted the N-WC&N / AR&C to build into the Kootneay. - 1892 Aug. 4
B.C.: CP leases the Shuswap & Okanagan Railway for 25 years. (Re-leased July 1915 for 999 years). - 1892 Aug. 23
Kootenay Mining and Smelting Company incorporated, capitalized to $30,000: Dr. W.A. Hendryx. Bluebell mine. - 1892 Aug. 23
B.C.: Kootenay Lake Reduction Company incorporated, capitalized to $250,000: Dr. Willard A. Hendryx. Bluebell mine. - 1892 Aug. 29
B.C.: John W. Cleaver, Patrick Sullivan, E.C. (Edwd.) Smith and W. (Walter) C. Burchett register the Hamlet and the Shylock on what would become the Sullivan property. - 1892 September
B.C. political: Jas. Baker appointed provincial secretary and Minister of Mines. - 1892 Sep. 8
District of Alberta, N-WT: Last rail in southern branch of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway (C&E) laid at West MacLeod. - 1892 Sep. 18
WA: SF&N completed to Northport. - 1892 Sep. 19
Lethbridge, N-WT: Lethbridge Fire Department established by adoption of By-law No. 31. - 1892 Autumn
Lethbridge, N-WT: A Ronald No. 4 fire engine—”Clanging Billy”—acquired. - 1892 October
B.C.: Honourable Edgar Dewdney appointed lieutenant-governor. - 1892 Oct. 12
Federal political: Order-in-Council terminates the “closed” lease system in the N-WT as of December 31st, 1896. Thenceforth all leases to be “open” and subject to forfeit. - 1892 Oct. 16
Federal political: Edgar Dewdney resigns as Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs. - 1892 Oct. 17
Federal political: Thomas Mayne Daly appointed Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs. - 1892 Oct. 25
B.C.: John Arrowsmith pre-empted what is now lot 526 at Creston. - 1892 Oct. 30
C&KSN launches the Illecillewaet (98 tons) at Revelstoke. Scrapped 1902. - 1892 November
Fort Macleod, N-WT: James Wilson replaces A.G. Irvine as Indian Agent. - 1892 November
Lethbridge, N-WT: William Oliver elected chief of Fire Department. - 1892 Nov. 2
B.C.: Honourable Edgar Dewdney commissioned lieutenant-governor. - 1892 Nov. 3
Mekastoe (West Macleod), N-WT: First C&E train arrives. - 1892 Nov. 7
Slocan City, B.C.: William Hunter (51 tons) launched for Slocan Trading and Navigation Co. Scrapped 1903. - 1892 Nov. 9
B.C. political: Honourable Edgar Dewdney sworn in as lieutenant-governor. - 1892 Nov. 30
District of Alberta, N-WT: CPR registers a townsite plan for West Macleod. - 1892 Dec. 1
Fairview, B.C.: Post Office opens a bureau. - 1892 Dec. 5
Federal political: John Sparrow David Thompson succeeds as Conservative prime minister. - 1892 Dec. 5
Federal political: Thomas Mayne Daly appointed Minister of the Interior and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs. - 1892 Dec. 15
MT: “Jemmy Jock” Bird dies. - 1892 Dec. 30
B.C.: Vernon receives its letters patent of incorporation as a city. - 1892 Dec. 28
Lethbridge, N-WT: Noel’s Brewery burns. - 1892 Dec. 31
Fort Macleod, District of Alberta, N-WT.: “Town of Macleod” incorporated. - 1892 Winter
B.C.: Cattle-killing weather in the Okanagan.
