Period 1906 – 1910

Period 1906 – 1910 for South-western Canada

• 1906
  United Mine Workers of America bars Orientals.
• 1906
  East Kootenay, BC: Chas. Duncan McNab sells his interest in the East Kootenay Lumber Co. to the Leitch brothers and with his brother, Francis P., and Valentine Hyde Baker et al forms Baker Lumber Company. Mill built at Waldo, B.C.
• 1906
  Bellevue, AB: Southern Hotel raised.
• 1906
  Hanbury, BC: F.H. Pearson and J.J. Jewell build sawmill. Becomes Jewell Lumber Co.
• 1906
  “Sand Creek Landing (Waldo),” BC: Ross brothers sell mill at Elkmouth to McInnes brothers and with Telford incorporate Ross-Saskatoon Lumber Co. to build mill.
• 1906
  AB: Post Office opens a local bureau called “Lundbreck.”
• 1906
  Lundbreck, AB: H.H. and Geo. Rogers open general store.
• 1906
  Beasley, BC: The Queen Victoria mine established and being developed by J.P. Swedberg: aerial tramway, short railway spur.
• 1906
  Maud, BC: (David Bride built his hotel and Joe Frank raised his store in what is now Bridesville.
• 1906
  B.C.: Keremeos Land Company organized to buy land from J.L. Coulthard and lay out the present Keremeos townsite.
• 1906
  The farmer-owned Grain Growers Grain Company (later, United Grain Growers) formed.
• 1906
  Coleman, AB: CPR builds permanent depôt.
• 1906
  Livingstone siding, AB: Renamed “Burmis” by CPR.
• 1906
  Lethbridge, AB: Ellison Milling and Elevator Company, Limited, begins building its plant. Finished 1907.
• 1906
  Lethbridge, AB: Hudson’s Bay Co. opens a store.
• 1906
  Blairmore, AB: Pass Turf Association formed.
• 1906
  Kimberley, BC: Taylor brothers buy Prest Lewis’s sawmill.
• 1906
  Marysville, BC: Board of Trade organized.
• 1906
  Fort Steele, BC: Fire razes part of the central business district.
• 1906
  Marysville, BC: The Falls View Hotel opens. Paul Handley buys the Central Hotel from Jack McDonald.
• 1906
  B.C.: A.E. Watts organizes the Boundary Exploration and Mining Company, Limited, to exploit coal measures near Midway.
• 1906
  Greenwood, BC: B.C. Copper refurbishes the nearby Anaconda Smelter, buys the Oro Denoro and the B.C. mines.
• 1906
  North Dakota: La France Mining Company registered the Chicago Mining Company.
• 1906
  Cascade, BC: West Kootenay Power and Light Company steals Anaconda Smelter electricity contract from the Cascade Water, Power and Light Company.
• 1906
  Nelson, BC: Hall Mining and Smelting adds a Huntington-Heberlein process roaster to its Nelson plant.
• 1906
  Elko, B.C.: Crow’s Nest Pass Electric Light and Power Company bought the generation rights to Elk River falls at Elko.
• 1906
  B.C.: Otis Staples Lumber Company of Wycliffe incorporated the St. Mary and Cherry Creek Railway.
• 1906
  Wardner, BC: CP finally builds a station.
• 1906
  Grand Forks, BC: Kettle Valley Lines raises its station.
• 1906 January
  Lethbridge, AB: Westminster School opens in North Ward.
• 1906 January
  B.C.: The Moyie Lumber Company bought by J.D. McArthur, et al. Renamed the Porto Rico Lumber Company and soon acquired by Beaver Lumber Company of Winnipeg.
• 1906 January
  Lundbreck, AB: Thos. Madden and Reuben Steeves open the Windsor Hotel.
• 1906 Jan. 8
  Spences Bridge, BC: CPR lays the first rails eastward on the Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Railway.
• 1906 Jan. 9
  Canadian Consolidated Mines, Limited federally chartered as the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited: W.D. Matthews, president.
• 1906 Jan. 27
  Moose Jaw, Sask.: Grain Growers Grain Company founded at a meeting of the Territorial Grain Growers Association.
• 1906 February
  The Trusts and Guarantee Company, having reorganised the Kettle River Valley Railway as the Kettle Valley Lines, sent its managing director, James J. Warren, to Grand Forks to sell it.
• 1906 Feb. 1
  Lille, AB: bureau de poste opens.
• 1906 Feb. 3
  Blairmore, AB: Fire destroys Blairmore Hotel and adjoining businesses. Another Saturday night in the Big town. Thanx, Ian McKenzie.
• 1906 Feb. 12
  Dominion Copper $5 million share offering.
• 1906 Feb. 21
  Lethbridge, AB: United Mine Workers of America form Local 574 to represent Galt workers.
• 1906 Mar. 9
  Lethbridge, AB: United Mine Workers of America Local 574 walks out on strike.
• 1906 Mar. 19
  Yahk, BC: S.J. (Sam) McCartney sets up a permanent postal bureau.
• 1906 Apr. 1
  Sunday.
• 1906 Apr. 1
  Coleman, AB: Institutional Presbyterian Church dedicated.
• 1906 Apr. 6
  Morrissey, BC: CNP Coal shuts down the Carbonado mine.
• 1906 Apr. 6
  Federal political: That a Dominion Experimental Farm to be established at Lethbridge announced.
• 1906 Apr. 9
  Blairmore, AB: St. Paul’s Anglican dedicated.
• 1906 Apr. 29
  B.C.: UMWA strikes CNP Coal over wages. Brief.
• 1906 May
  Lethbridge, AB: AR&I opens its mines with scab labour.
• 1906 May 5
  Nelson, BC: CPR launches Kuskanook (1008 tons). Retired 1930.
• 1906 May 8
  Ducks, BC: Bill Miner et al hold up CPR at what is now Monte Creek.
• 1906 May 9
  Alberta political: “The Coal Mines Act, 1906” implemented, regulating sex and age of labour and instituting basic safety requirements.
• 1906 May 9
  Alberta political: 1906 Chapter 64, “An Act to Incorporate the City of Lethbridge,” receives royal assent.
• 1906 May 9
  Alberta political: 1906 6 Edward VII Chapter 37, “An Act respecting the Encouragement of the Sugar Beet Industry,” receives royal assent.
• 1906 May 11
  B.C. political: Honourable James Dunsmiur commissioned lieutenant-governor.
• 1906 May 12
  AB: Pincher Creek incorporated as a Town.
• 1906 May 14
  B.C.: Bill Miner and associates captured in the Thompson Plateau.
• 1906 May 28
  Lethbridge, AB: AR&I “replacement workers” enter Galt mines.
• 1906 July
  Grand Forks, BC: KVL begins construction of a branch up the Granby River northward.
• 1906 July 31
  England: Colonel James Baker dies.
• 1906 August
  B.C.: Canadian Metals Company re-organizes its operations at Riondel and Pilot Bay, promoting S.S. Fowler to local command. Abandons smelter at Frank, AB.
• 1906 Aug. 1
  Federal political: William Fairfield appointed superintendent of the Lethbridge Experimental Farm. Till 1945.
• 1906 Aug. 5
  Coleman, AB: St. Alban’s Anglican Church opened.
• 1906 Aug. 13
  Lethbridge, AB: Bomb explodes near residences of Galt “replacement” miners.
• 1906 Aug. 16
  Alberta political: Order-in-Council incorporates Cowley as a Village.
• 1906 September
  Merritt, BC: Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Railway arrives.
• 1906 September
  East Shore of Kootenay Lake, B.C.: The 4th Earl Grey, governor-general of Canada, bought 54 acres and named it “Boswell Ranch.”
• 1906 Sep. 15
  Alberta: Cowley gazetted as a Village; Percy James Biddell appointed Overseer.
• 1906 Sep. 22
  B.C.: UMWA strikes CNP Coal over wages. Two months out.
• 1906 Sep. 26
  Rossland, BC: Mrs. Mary Jane Hanna weds Col. Eugene Sayer Topping.
• 1906 October
  B.C.: Snowshoe Gold and Copper Mines, Limited, driven into insolvency by a hike in the price of coal.
• 1906 October
  Blairmore, AB: Union Bank of Canada opens a branch office.
• 1906 October
  AB: Dr. A.F. Watson succeeds as chief of the quarantine station near Lethbridge.
• 1906 Oct. 22
  Canmore, AB: Western Coal Operators Association formed.
• 1906 Nov. 1
  AB: W.L. Hamilton begons buying a coal prospect in the Crowsnest’s valley near Bellevue from J.C. Drewry.
• 1906 Nov. 1
  Spokane International Railway declared open for business.
• 1906 Nov. 2
  Nicola, BC: Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Railway arrives.
• 1906 Nov. 30
  Rocky Mountain Cement Company incorporated. Works at Blairmore, AB.
• 1906 December
  AB: Begins the cattle killing Winter in the south.
• 1906 December
  B.C.: West Kootenay Power and Light Company buys the South Kootenay Water Power Company.
• 1906 Dec. 6
  Macleod, AB: Fire incinerates much of downtown Main Street.
• 1906 Dec. 6
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt miners return to work.
• 1907
  Year of Economic uncertainty: Wall Street Panic of 1907.
• 1907
  AB: Dead cattle litter the southern ranges.
• 1907
  B.C.: The Reco Group of Spokane bonds the four most promising claims on Copper Mountain.
• 1907
  Beasley, BC: The Queen Victoria mine bonded by James Cronin et al: ore to Trail, BC.
• 1907
  Morrissey, BC: The Great Northern’s Morrissey, Fernie and Michel Railway buys CP’s Carbonado spur.
• 1907
  Calgary, AB: The Anglican church closes St. Dunstan’s, the Calgary Indian Industrial School.
• 1907
  Brocket, AB: Both the Alberta Pacific Grain Company and merchant Timothé Lebel of Pincher Creek complete grain “warehouses.”
• 1907
  Dorr, BC: Pugh and Livingstone establish their saw mill on Rock—now “Kikomun”—Creek.
• 1907
  W.L. Hamilton and the Leitch brothers form Lietch Collieries: HQ in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Malcolm Leitch, president.
• 1907
  Castlegar, BC: Columbia and Western Railway’s original station burns. Immediately replaced with extant building, the current (2006) museum.
• 1907
  Keremeos Centre, BC: present museum building Keremeos built as the jail.
• 1907
  Creston, BC: Chas. O. Rodgers establishes a sawmill at the mouth of the Goat River gorge.
• 1907
  Creston, BC: Bank of Commerce opens a branch.
• 1907
  I.R. 148, AB: Kainai Nation acquires a steam traction engine and a breaking plough. Two sections broken.
• 1907
  I.R. 148, AB: Crop-eared Wolf becomes Kainai head chief.
• 1907
  Lundbreck, AB: Dr. A.C.C. Johnson opens his pharmacy/hospital.
• 1907
  WA: J.J. Hill completes his “Third Mainline” through to Oroville from Marcus on the Columbia River.
• 1907
  Boswell, BC: Post office established: Emma Ginol, post mistress.
• 1907
  Dorr, BC: Pugh & Livingstone built sawmill on the Crows Nest Southern R/W line.
• 1907
  B.C.: L.C. Hill buys some 1,150 acres on the south-east side of Lake Osoyoos from Tom Ellis.
• 1907
  Osoyoos, BC: London-based Dominion Fairview Copper Company buys up the Waneta, Favourite and Waterdown Fraction on Kruger Mountain.
• 1907
  B.C.: Doukhobor leader P.V. Verigin buys the 900-acre Coryell Ranch near Grand Forks for $38,000.
• 1907
  Castlegar, BC: Doukhobor settlers begin arriving in the region.
• 1907
  B.C.: City of Nelson’s generating station at Upper Bonnington Falls began supplying electricity to Nelson and the Hall Mines smelter.
• 1907
  B.C.: The Cambrian Mining Company builds a 200-foot long pier into Moyie Lake and begins to sink a caisson on the Cambrian claim.
• 1907
  Crow’s Nest/Crowsnest, BC: CPR replaces station.
• 1907
  Macleod, AB: CPR moves depôt into town from original Haneyville location.
• 1907
  AB: Rocky Mountain Development drills its last well; on the Waterton townsite.
• 1907
  AB: The Canadian Northwest Company begins drilling a set of wells on the Castle River. Became Canada West Oil Co.
• 1907
  AB: Western Oil and Coal Consolidated Company sunk sunk an oil well near Pincher Creek. Gas in low quantities.
• 1907
  B.C.: West Kootenay Power and Light Company completes the Upper Bonnington Power Plant No. 2.
• 1907
  Granby Consolidated buys controlling interest in the Emma on Phœnix Mountain, BC.
• 1907
  Blairmore, AB: West Canadian Collieires moves its Canadian headquarters from Lille.
• 1907
  B.C.: The Federal Mining Company bankrupt; the Marysville smelter and the Sullivan mine at Kimberley shut down.
• 1907
  Phœnix, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting leases the Snowshoe and redeveloped the mine.
• 1907
  Cranbrook, BC: CP builds the 6 core stalls of its round house.
• 1907
  AB: R. James Galbraith sells Galbraith Coal Company and its works at Lundbreck to Andrew Laidlaw of Spokane, WA.
• 1907
  AB: AR&I pulls its St.MRR’s Woolford–Kimball branch.
• 1907
  Lethbridge, AB: City-built two-room kindergarten opens on Coutts opposite Barracks Square.
• 1907
  Elko, BC: Third school house built.
• 1907
  Macleod, AB: Town council enacts an ordinance requiring all downtown construction to use fire-proof materials.
• 1907
  Grand Forks, BC: Kettle River Lines begins a twelve year long project to build up the Granby River to Brown’s, Franklin and Gloucester Camps.
• 1907 January
  Blairmore, AB: Blairmore Coal and Coke Company began development of Blairmore South mine.
• 1907 Jan. 1
  Harrop, BC: Ernest Harrop opens a postal bureau.
• 1907 Jan. 7
  Hanbury, BC: Postal bureau opened in the North Star/Jewell Lumber mill offices.
• 1907 Feb. 2
  B.C. political: Richard McBride re-elected Conservative premier of B.C.
• 1907 Spring
  Canada: Livestock losses mount on the southern Prairies.
• 1907 Spring
  B.C.: CPR declares the Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Railway open.
• 1907 Mar. 17
  B.C.: The CPR establishes the Pacific Coal Company, Limited to take charge of Hosmer Mines, Limited, which begins development of the property in the Elk valley.
• 1907 April
  Cascade Water, Power and Light Company sells out to the West Kootenay Power and Light Company.
• 1907 April
  J.J. Hill announces GN’s intent to extend through Crowsnest and out onto the Prairies.
• 1907 April
  Louis Warren Hill succeeds James Jerome Hill as president of the Great Northern Railway. Hill, Sr., becomes chairman of the board.
• 1907 April
  WA: WGN begins building up the Similkameen from Oroville.
• 1907 Apr. 1
  B.C.: UMWA strikes CNP Coal. Until May 2. Wm. Lyon Mackenzie King mediates and obtains a 4-year agreement.
• 1907 Apr. 3
  Coleman, AB: Three die in the after damp of a gas blast in the International Coal and Coke mine.
• 1907 Apr. 4
  Granite City, BC: Derelict remains of town burns.
• 1907 Apr. 11
  B.C.: Foley, Welch and Stewart track gangs working northward cross the Boundary in the Similkameen Valley.
• 1907 Apr. 16
  Okanagan Landing, BC: CPR’s B.C. Lake and River Service launches Okanagan (1078 tons). Sold for scrapping in 1938.
• 1907 May
  Morrissey, BC: CNP Coal restarts work in the Carbonado colliery.
• 1907 May
  Federal: Seeds of “Marquis” wheat sent to Dominion experimental farms.
• 1907 May
  B.C.: Water Rights Branch grants a permit to the Cranbrook Electric Light Company, Limited, to harness St Mary’s River.
• 1907 May 1
  SK: Province confiscates 258,000 acres of land from the Doukhobors.
• 1907 May 2
  B.C.: Foley, Welch and Stewart Company build the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway through Cawston and soon into Keremeos.
• 1907 May 7
  Marquis wheat, developed by Chas. Edwd. Saunders of the Dominion Experimental Farms, is introduced.
• 1907 May 23
  Cawston, BC: Similkameen River floods washes out the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway right-of-way below nearby.
• 1907 June
  I.R. 148, AB: At DIA insistance the Kainai Nation votes on the proposal to sell part of Reserve. Rejected.
• 1907 June 1
  Federal political: Law adopted requiring Doukhobors to obey homestead regulations. Eventually 400,000 acres of land stripped from the Congregation.
• 1907 June 1
  Lethbridge, AB: United Mine Workers of America and Alberta Railway and Irrigation Co. agree to a contract expiring on March 31, 1909
• 1907 June 6
  Wardner, BC: A sizeable portion of business district burns.
• 1907 June 15
  Bellevue, AB: postal bureau opens.
• 1907 June 15
  Hillcrest Mines, AB: Post Office opens a local bureau. (see Jan. 1, 1908)
• 1907 June 22
  Lethbridge, AB: Surveyors begin locating the footings of the Viaduct.
• 1907 July
  Bellevue, AB: Develoment begins on the Maple Leaf mine.
• 1907 July 1
  Spokane Falls and Northern Railway dissolved and its assets incorporated into the Great Northern.
• 1907 July 1
  CP initiated its Soo-Pacific Train de Luxe passenger service on the Soo Line/Spokane International route.
• 1907 July 10
  Keremeos, BC: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway train arrives.
• 1907 July 29
  Coleman, AB: John Nathan appointed town”s first constable.
• 1907 Aug. 8
  New Westminster, BC: Bill Miner escapes from the British Columbia Penitentiary.
• 1907 September
  B.C.: CNP Coal lays out the townsite which would become “Natal.”
• 1907 September
  Nelson, BC: Hall Mining and Smelting shuts down its smelter.
• 1907 Sep. 7
  Vancouver, BC: Anti-Oriental riot.
• 1907 Sep. 13
  Federal politcal: Honourable G.P. Graham appointed Minister of Railways and Canals.
• 1907 Sep. 20
  Moyie, BC: Fire hall completed and commissioned. Hose tower added in 1909.
• 1907 Autumn
  Poor crops in the Canadian West.
• 1907 Autumn
  Anaconda, BC: B.C. Copper suspends operations at Anaconda Smelter near Greenwood.
• 1907 October
  Boundary Falls, BC: Dominion Copper Company suspends operations at the Sunset Smelter.
• 1907 Oct. 1
  Keremeos, BC: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway commences regular service.
• 1907 Oct. 26
  Lethbridge, AB: Crews begin puring the Viaduct”s footings.
• 1907 Nov. 1
  The Great Northern acquires and merges the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway which it had leased in 1890.
• 1907 Nov. 10
  Hosmer, BC: Three die in mine cave-in.
• 1907 December
  Burmis, AB.: East Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company of Spokane, Washington, buys mineral rights to a section.
• 1907 Dec. 1
  Fruitvale, BC: J.N. Hammond appointed the first postmaster.
• 1907 Dec. 4
  James Galbraith dead.
• 1908
  Recession year.
• 1908
  Natal, BC: The Elk Valley Brewing Company builds its brewery on the “New Michel” or “Newtown” (later, “Natal”) townsite.
• 1908
  Nelson, BC: West Kootenay Power begins supplying power to the Silver King mine.
• 1908
  B.C.: City of Nelson’s power project at Upper Bonnington complete.
• 1908
  Nelson, B.C.: Neslon Electric Tramway car-barn fire.
• 1908
  Coleman, AB: Battle of “Bushtown.” Communal violence.
• 1908
  Jaffray, BC.: CP replaces first crude station with a two-storey structure?
• 1908
  Cowley, AB.: St. Aiden’s Anglican opened.
• 1908
  Fernie, BC.: The Fernie Brick Company begins manufacturing.
• 1908
  CP bought two sections adjacent to its coal measures in the Elk valley from Crow’s Nest Pass Electric Light and Power upon which to build the commercial town of Hosmer.
• 1908
  Procter, BC.: Barge slip and piers re-built.
• 1908
  Fernie, BC: United Mine Workers of America buy the Fernie Ledger and change its name to District Ledger. Ceased publication in 1919.
• 1908
  American investors buy the Queen Group of four claims and its 20-stamp mill near Salmo, BC.
• 1908
  Keremeos, BC: Similkameen River road-bridged.
• 1908
  Beasley, BC: The Queen Victoria mine bonded to E.A. Erlund et al of New York.
• 1908
  Yahk, BC: Teddy Klausen opened Commercial Hotel.
• 1908
  Using its Soo Line/Spokane International route, CP won the contract for transferring U.S. mail between the Northwest and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
• 1908
  Creston, BC: J.J. Atherton began publishing The Creston Review.
• 1908
  B.C.: The Wood-McNab Lumber Company set up a sawmill in the Hartley Creek valley off the Elk River.
• 1908
  Creston, BC.: Board of Trade established: chairman, Edwd. Mallandaine.
• 1908
  Creston, B.C.: Goat Mountain Waterworks begins supplying community with piped water.
• 1908
  Michel, B.C.: Crows Nest Southern Railway completed from Fernie.
• 1908
  West Canadian Collieries buys itself from Le Societé Anonymé du Chemin de Fer Noullier du Canada.
• 1908
  Bellevue, AB.: West Canadian Collieries completes new tipple.
• 1908
  Nelson, BC: Canada Zinc Company, Limited obtains an operating loan from the province, but denied federal money. Folds.
• 1908
  B.C.: The Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company bonds the Dividend claim near Osoyoos.
• 1908
  B.C.: Doukhobors operating a reaction ferry across the Columbia River between Kinnaird and Waterloo.
• 1908
  B.C.: CPR laid 12 miles of the Kootenay Central south from Golden, BC.
• 1908
  B.C.: Bull River Electric Light and Power broke and ceases operations.
• 1908
  Henry Luplin Frank dies.
• 1908
  Lethbridge, AB: CPR expands station.
• 1908
  Andrew Rosen clears a farm on the Colony Road north of Fort Steele, B.C.
• 1908
  Marysville, B.C.: Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber Company opens new mill.
• 1908
  Blairmore, AB.: “Main School” raised.
• 1908
  Cowley, AB.: School house erected “in town.”
• 1908 Jan. 1
  Hillcrest Mines, AB.: Post Office opens a local bureau. (see June 15, 1907)
• 1908 Jan. 20
  Monday
• 1908 Mar. 5
  Alberta political: 8 Edward VII Chapter 17″An Act to Amend the Coal Mines Act for the Purpose of Limiting Hours of Work Below Ground (The Coal Mines Act 1908)” receives royal assent.
• 1908 Mar. 27
  First issue of Keremeos Trumpet (closed December 31, 1909).
• 1908 Spring
  B.C.: Washouts on the Kaslo & Slocan.
• 1908 April
  James J. Warren of the Kettle Valley Lines contrives to meet CP’s Shaughnessy aboard the Empress of Britain.
• 1908 April
  Coleman, AB: H.S. French begins publishing the Coleman Miner.
• 1908 April
  Canadian-American Coal and Coke re-organized as the Canadian Consolidated Coal Co.
• 1908 Apr. 1
  Lethbridge, AB: 25th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery organized.
• 1908 May 20
  Fruitvale, BC: Anglican Church organized, the Rev. M. Graham of Nelson officiating.
• 1908 June 1
  B.C. Copper restarts operations at Anaconda Smelter at Greenwood, BC.
• 1908 June 1
  Passburg, AB.: postal bureau opened: Wm. Kerr, postmaster.
• 1908 June 6
  The Eastern British Columbia Railway enchartered in B.C.
• 1908 June 7
  The steam ship City of Medicine Hat drifted into the souther-most pier of the Traffic Bridge in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and sinks.
• 1908 June 28
  Blairmore, AB, absorbs South Blairmore.
• 1908 July
  Canadian Metals Company completes construction of its concentrator at the Bluebell and has finished salvaging the Pilot Bay smelter.
• 1908 July 11
  Grand Forks, BC: Downtown mauled by fire.
• 1908 July 31
  Coal Creek, BC: Cave-in kills 4, traps 21 in mine No. 2 after a bump. Mine subsequently abandoned.
• 1908 Aug. 1
  B.C.: Big Fire begins at Fernie and burns up Elk River valley, over Hosmer and up Michel Creek to Michel, BC.
• 1908 Aug. 8
  WA: Corbin Coke and Coal Company, Limited, incorporated, capitalized at two million dollars, Albert Allen, president.
• 1908 Aug. 15
  Lethbridge, AB.: First steel of the Viaduct set.
• 1908 September
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt family deeds “the Square” to the City.
• 1908 September
  AB: First of the great tracts of surveyed land opened for settlement in southern Alberta.
• 1908 September
  Robson, B.C.: First school classes convened in Baptist Mission Church: Gertrude Mitchell, teacher.
• 1908 Autumn
  B.C.: CP’s Tie and Timber Branch buys the Parker and Thorp operation on the Kootenay River near Bull River.
• 1908 Oct. 26
  Federal Election: Laurier returned as Liberal prime minister of Canada.
• 1908 Dec. 19
  Hosmer, B.C.: CP begins shipping coal.
• 1908 December
  Nelson, B.C.: Hall Mines smelter now an empty, abandoned shell; salvaged.
• 1908 December
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt No. 5 completed. No. 6 being dug.
• 1908 Dec. 31
  B.C.: Municipality of Penticton incorporated: Alfred H. Wade, mayor.
• 1908 End
  Coleman, AB.: International Coal and Coke completes last of 216 coke ovens.
• 1909
  Nelson, BC: CPR launches Hosmer (154 tons). Sold 1934.
• 1909
  Nelson, BC: City leases its City Wharf to the CPR.
• 1909
  Nelson, BC: Rattenbury-designed court house completed.
• 1909
  Federal political: David Laird retires as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Post abolished.
• 1909
  Marquis wheat released to the farming public.
• 1909
  Cowley, AB: Alberta Hotel burned down.
• 1909
  Jaffray, BC: Andrew Rosen builds his store.
• 1909
  Jaffray, BC: New school built.
• 1909
  Baynes Lake, BC: School opened. Jennie Adolph.
• 1909
  AB: St. Mary’s River Railway ceases narrow gauge operations.
• 1909
  Kipp, AB: CP begins construction of what became its Aldersyde Sub. from a spur near the station.
• 1909
  Kipp, AB: Diamond City Railway Co. lays its mainline from a switch in the CNL south of Kipp to Diamond City and Commerce.
• 1909
  “Royal City,” AB: New Barnes Coal Company opens its mine.
• 1909
  Beaver Mines, AB: Western Oil and Coal Consolidated Company begins mining operations. Ceased operations in 1914.
• 1909
  Taber, AB: Father Leonard Van Tighem trasferred hither from Lethbridge.
• 1909
  Corbin Coke and Coal Company, Limited, restructured: D.C. Corbin, president.
• 1909
  Fernie, BC: Municipal steam-powered generating plant completed.
• 1909
  Coleman, AB: The Foothills Job Printing Company buys the Coleman Miner. Shut down by the authorities in 1911 for its pro-labour editorials.
• 1909
  Okanagan Falls, BC: Bassett House raised.
• 1909
  Lundbreck, AB.: Andrew Laidlaw up-grades the surface plant of the Galbraith Coal Co.
• 1909
  Passburg, AB.: Leitch Collieries began developing its mine No. 2 at Police Falts.
• 1909
  Beasley, BC: Queen Victoria mine closed.
• 1909
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt No. 6 completed.
• 1909
  Lethbridge, AB: UMWA strike Galt works.
• 1909
  Blairmore, AB. Blairmore Baptist (now United) church opened.
• 1909
  Grand Forks, BC. Grand Forks Hotel completed.
• 1909
  Grand Forks, BC: Doukhobor settlers begin arriving at area settlement of Fructova.
• 1909
  Grand Forks, BC: Charles Allen buys E.E. Spraggett’s planing mill and sash and door factory on Ruckle Slough. Renamed the Norris Lumber and Box Company.
• 1909
  B.C.: Bull River Electric Light and Power lays out the townsite of Pritchard.
• 1909
  Cranbrook, BC: Masonic Temple completed.
• 1909
  Cranbrook, BC: Central School completed.
• 1909
  Sentinel, AB; Siding laid in.
• 1909
  East Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company of Spokane, Washington, forms Davenport Coal Company to develop a mine at Burmis, AB.
• 1909
  “Lime City,” AB.: Joe Little buys a property on the east side of the Frank Slide debris field to set up a lime-burning operation.
• 1909
  B.C.: The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company acquires the No. 7 property and the adjacent Caber Fae Fraction and the Black Jack in the Boundary Creek area.
• 1909
  Sandon, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting bought the Richmond-Eureka mine: ore by N&S, barge and C&W to Trail.
• 1909
  Phœnix Mountain, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting bought the Snowshoe mine.
• 1909
  Jewel Lake, BC: Jewel-Denoro Mines Company commences construction of a 15-stamp mill near Greenwood.
• 1909
  WA: McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke Company, Limited, incorporated.
• 1909
  B.C.: International Navigation and Trading retires the International.
• 1909
  Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway relinquishes its right-of-way in the Coquihalla valley in BC. Reclaims it in 1911.
• 1909
  Grand Forks, BC: Russell Hotel (Longhorn Saloon) raised.
• 1909
  B.C.: Board of Railway Commissioners orders CP to raise a station at A.E. Watts’ “Wattsburg” near Cranbrook. CP named it “Lumberton” out of spite.
• 1909
  Cowley, AB: Alberta Hotel burns.
• 1909
  AB: United Farmers of Alberta formed.
• 1909
  The CPR completes the re-alignment of the Crow’s Nest Line between Lethbridge and Macleod, AB.
• 1909
  Cowley, AB: St. Aiden’s Anglican opened.
• 1909
  Pincher Creek, AB: King Edward Hotel opened.
• 1909
  Pincher Creek, AB: Timothé Lebel completes his mansion.
• 1909
  Diamond City, AB: Diamond Coal Company begins production. Sporadic production after WWI, ending in 1930.
• 1909
  AB: New Barnes Coal Co. begins production near Lethbridge.
• 1909
  AB: Townsite of Brocket laid out.
• 1909
  Macleod, AB: Extant Mackenzie Bridge over the Oldman River installed.
• 1909
  Lethbridge, AB: CPR runs spur out to mines at Coal City (aka “Royal City,” “Village of Royal View”)
• 1909
  Lethbridge, AB: “Kuo Min Tang” building completed.
• 1909
  Lethbridge, AB: Acadia Building completed.
• 1909
  Lethbridge, AB: E.E. Carver-designed Sherlock Block completed. Two more floors added in 1911 (five total).
• 1909
  Lethbridge, AB: Mrs. Maria Elizabeth Van Haarlem, nurse, opens a medical care home.
• 1909 Jan. 1
  Lethbridge, AB: Lemuel H. Fowler installed as Fire Chief.
• 1909 Jan. 11
  Boundary Waters Treaty signed by the U.S. & G.B. to regulate the diversion and impounding of cross-Boundary streams. An International Joint Commission established to review all projects. Immediately affected was the St. Mary’s River and Milk River irrigation schemes in southern Alberta.
• 1909 Jan. 15
  Lethbridge, AB: J.A. MacDonald-designed fire hall opened.
• 1909 Jan. 27
  Morrissey, BC: An outburst in the Carbonado: no fatalities.
• 1909 Feb. 1
  Fernie, BC: CPR officially opens its “Special WF” depôt.
• 1909 Feb. 9
  AB: St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Separate School District No. 18 founded in southern Alberta.
• 1909 Feb. 11
  B.C.: CNP Coal modifies its charter to allow itself to develop real estate at Fernie.
• 1909 Feb. 25
  AB: 9 Edward VII Chap.44, “An Act to Incorporate the Kootenay and Alberta Railway Company,” receives royal assent.
• 1909 Feb. 25
  AB: 9 Edward VII, Chap. 22, “An Act respecting the Galt Hospital,” receives royal assent.
• 1909 Mar. 22
  Alberta election: Alexander Rutherford’s Liberals re-elected.
• 1909 March
  “New Michel,” BC: GN pushed rails of Crow’s Nest Southern into what became “Natal.”
• 1909 Spring
  B.C.: Washouts on the K&S;
• 1909 April
  “New Michel,” BC: Postal bureau opens.
• 1909 April
  Alberta political: Coal Mine Act, 1909, implementing 8-hour work day. Strike when owners refuse to include travel time in the shift.
• 1909 April
  B.C.: E. Golden Filer and Associates buy CNP Lumber for $1.2 million. Two mills: Wardner and Marysville. Immediately begin building a new mill near Jaffray at “Manistee.”
• 1909 April
  Blairmore, AB: West Canadian Collieries announces finding a promising coal seam in its Blairmore South mine.
• 1909 Apr. 26
  Robson, BC: Annie Hartford, first baby born.
• 1909 May
  U.S.A.: Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway completed.
• 1909 May 4
  B.C.: Upper Spiral Tunnel on the CPR’s mainline in the Kicking Horse Pass completed.
• 1909 May 5
  B.C.: Lower Spiral Tunnel completed.
• 1909 May 5
  Morrissey, BC: An outburst in the Carbonado: two killed.
• 1909 May 19
  Morrissey, BC: An outburst in the Carbonado: no fatalities.
• 1909 June
  Lethbridge, AB: City opens City #1 mine to feed the civic power plant. Closed in October, 1941.
• 1909 June 7
  Salmo, BC: John Waldbeser incorporates the Iron Mountain Limited to work the Emerald property nearby.
• 1909 June 11
  New Dominion Copper Company formed.
• 1909 June 22
  Lethbridge, AB: First locomotive across Viaduct.
• 1909 July
  Edmonton, AB: Grand Trunk Pacific Railway commences service.
• 1909 July
  Kimberley, BC: Federal Mining Company and some of its main creditors buy at auction the assets of the Sullivan mine.
• 1909 July 16
  I.R. 147A, AB: At the insistance of DIA officials, Piikani hold vote to OK sale of lands. Rejected.
• 1909 July 25
  Blairmore, AB: Central Baptist Church dedicated.
• 1909 August
  Morrissey, BC: CNP Coal ceased working the Carbonado.
• 1909 Aug. 6
  Fernie, BC: Albert Mutz declares the rebuilt brewery formally open.
• 1909 Aug. 11
  Lethbridge, AB: First train across the Viaduct.
• 1909 Aug. 13
  Lethbridge, AB: Thomas Peter Kilkenny installed as Fire Chief. Recruited 12-man force to live in fire hall by December.
• 1909 Aug. 12
  Hedley, BC: The Marcus Daly estate sold the Nickel Plate operation to U.S. Steel’s subsidiary, the Exploration Syndicate of New York which organized the Hedley Gold Mining Company to work the project.
• 1909 September
  Lethbridge, AB: Castle Hotel completed.
• 1909 September
  Bellevue, AB: Chet Wentworth offers lots for sale in the “Maple Leaf” suburb.
• 1909 Sep. 7
  B.C.: Nelson Street Railway Company incorporated to take over assets of the Nelson Electric Tramway Company.
• 1909 Oct. 20
  B.C. political: Provoincial Conservative government announces its Railway Policy, granting the Kettle Valley Lines a $5,000 per mile subsidy for a 150-mile portion of its project, a tax break, and a free right-of-way across crown lands.
• 1909 Oct. 23
  AB.: Traffic commences on CPR’s new rail line between Lethbridge and Macleod.
• 1909 November
  Michel, B.C.: New Hotel Michel completed. Burned late ’20s.
• 1909 November
  I.R. 147A, AB.: Despite the results of the vote on July 16th, DIA officials auction off 23,000 acres of Piikani reserved lands.
• 1909 Nov. 1
  Lethbridge, AB.: Viaduct officially inaugurated.
• 1909 Nov. 4
  Blairmore, AB,: The Blairmore Enterprise begins publication. Closes May of 1910.
• 1909 Nov. 9
  Princeton, B.C.: The Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway completes its crossing of the Similkameen River.
• 1909 Nov. 25
  B.C. political: Richard McBride leads Conservatives to re-election.
• 1909 December
  Consolidated Mining and Smelting takes a one-year lease on the Sullivan at Kimberley, B.C.
• 1909 Dec. 3
  Honourable T.W. Patterson commissioned lieutenant-governor of B.C.
• 1909 Dec. 10
  Coleman, AB: “Slav Town” absorbed.
• 1909 Dec. 23
  B.C.: First Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway passenger train into Hedley and Princeton.
• 1909 Dec. 31
  Lethbridge, AB.: Old power plant burns.