Period 1910 – 1913

Period 1910 – 1913 for South-western Canada

• 1910
  Summer of the Big Forest Fires in western Alberta. Timber loses extensive, and the infrastructure of several mining, railroad and forestry companies destroyed. The Peter McLaren Lumber Co. in the Crowsnest Pass loses most of its reserve. Exeedingly poor crops in southern Alberta.
• 1910
  Salmo, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting bonds the newly registered HB property nearby.
• 1910
  B.C.: The Kettle River Railway registers a right-of-way in the Coquihalla valley with the federal Board of Railway Commissioners.
• 1910
  Pincher Creek, AB: St. Michael’s School opens.
• 1910
  Kipp, AB: CP raises its station. (Burned in Feb., 1982)
• 1910
  Brocket, AB: CPR station built. (perhaps 1906)
• 1910
  B.C.: Edgewood Lumber Company relocates its mill from Arrow Lakes to “Mill Pond” at Castlegar.
• 1910
  Trail, BC: W.H. Aldridge retires from the presidency of Consolidated Mining and Smelting. Pat Stewart succeeds.
• 1910
  Kimberley, BC: North Star mine closed.
• 1910
  Waldo, BC: Suspension bridge across the Kootenay River completed.
• 1910
  Burmis, AB: Post Office opens local bureau in W.A. Brown’s general store.
• 1910
  B.C.: Maud renamed “Bridesville.”
• 1910
  Burmis, AB: First year of production for Davenport Coal Co.
• 1910
  Lundbreck, AB: CP builds its depôt.
• 1910
  Lundbreck, AB: brick school house raised.
• 1910
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Sash and Door begins operations.
• 1910
  Lethbridge, AB: Anglicans complete St. Cyrian’s. Renamed “St. Augustine’s” in 1919.
• 1910
  Lethbridge, AB: Presbyterians complete Knox Church.
• 1910
  Lethbridge, AB: Fire Hall renovated and expanded and renamed “Municipal Public Building.”
• 1910
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Culing Club expands facilty to four sheets.
• 1910
  Lethbridge, AB: First manned aircraft flies over the City, a hot-air balloon.
• 1910
  Lethbridge, AB: Landscaping begins in Galt Park.
• 1910
  “Manistee,” BC: School built.
• 1910
  AB: C.P. Hill sells Hillcrest Coal & Coke Co. to Montreal interests. Hillcrest Collieries, Ltd, incorporated.
• 1910
  GN’s International Navigation and Trading Company ceases operation.
• 1910
  B.C.: Forests around Moyie Lake burned.
• 1910
  Coal Mountain, BC: Corbin Coal and Coke completes its first year mining.
• 1910
  Coal Mountain, BC: Corbin C&C workers join District 18 of the United Mine Workers.
• 1910
  B.C.: CPR forms alliance with the Kettle Valley Lines of Grand Forks.
• 1910
  Trail, BC: CP builds a small roundhouse at Tadanac on smelter yards.
• 1910
  Frank, AB: Corpus Christi RC Church completed, Destroyed by high winds in 1917.
• 1910
  Natal, BC: CP erects depot.
• 1910
  Coaldale, AB: Women’s Missionary Society organized around five founders.
• 1910
  Passburg, AB.: church completed and community hall raised.
• 1910
  Cowley, AB.: CPR builds a new station. Salvaged 1971.
• 1910
  AB: West Canadian Collieries erects wash houses at all three of its operations: Lille, Blairmore, and Bellevue.
• 1910
  Blairmore, AB.: CPR raises a new station.
• 1910
  B.C.: CP’s Tie and Timber Branch sends crews onto Lot 4590 in the Bull River watershed.
• 1910
  British Columbia Copper acquires control of New Dominion Copper Company.
• 1910
  Sparwood siding, BC: Elk Valley Lumber Company builds new mill nearby.
• 1910
  Galloway, BC: Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber sets up its No. 3 sawmill.
• 1910 Circa
  Yale-Columbia Lumber Company acquires the Genelle brothers’ Boundary Lumber Company mill near Cascade.
• 1910 January
  Blairmore, AB.: Rocky Mountain Cement begins production.
• 1910 February
  CPR obtains a $6400/mile federal subsidy for 250 miles of the Princeton–Midway section of the Kettle River Railway.
• 1910 Feb. 21
  Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway starts tunnel through Cascade Range west of Coalmont.
• 1910 March
  Lethbridge, AB.: City buys “Slaughter House Slough.” Becomes Henderson Lake.
• 1910 Mar. 4
  B.C.: The Great Roger’s Pass avalanche kills 62 CP employees.
• 1910 Mar. 10
  B.C.: Province ratifies Kettle Valley Railway construction bill.
• 1910 Mar. 21
  Canadian Northern Pacific Railway incorporated to accept support of B.C. government in construction of Pacific portion of Canadian Northern’s network.
• 1910 Spring
  Frank, AB: Rocky Mountains Sanatorium opens.
• 1910 Spring
  B.C.: Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber commences its last log drive down the St. Mary’s River to the Kootenay.
• 1910 Apr. 19
  B.C.: Bull River Electric Power Company incorporated to take over assets of the BR Electric, Light and Power Company.
• 1910 May
  Wardner, BC: Province completes “government” bridge.
• 1910 May
  B.C.: Survey of the KCR right-of-way between Colvali and Golden completed.
• 1910 May 6
  Edward VII of England dies. George V succeeds.
• 1910 May 21
  B.C.: Anglicans complete St. Cyrian’s.McCulloch hired by Kettle River Valley Railway.
• 1910 May 26
  AB political: A.L. Sifton replaces Rutherford as Liberal premier of Alberta.
• 1910 May 27
  Ainsworth, BC: International Navigation and Trading Company’s Kaslo runs aground and never repaired.
• 1910 May 29
  Coeur d’Alene and Pend Oreille Railway organized to extend spurs from Spokane International Railway to Bayview on Pend Oreille Lake, and to Coeur d’Alene, ID.
• 1910 June
  J.M. Robinson buys control of the Summerland Development Co. from T.G. Shaughnessy.
• 1910 June
  Cranbrook, BC: The Masons opened their Temple.
• 1910 June 6
  AB: Town Municipality of Coleman, AB, incorporated.
• 1910 Summer
  Coleman, AB: McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke completes its first tipple.
• 1910 June 21
  Canadian Northern Pacific Railway contracts Foley, Welch and Stewart’s subsidiary, the Northern Construction Company, to build its roadbed.
• 1910 June 30
  Coalhurst, AB: Lethbridge Collieries issued a permit to initiate a coal mine at “Bridgend.”
• 1910 July 10
  Merritt, BC: The Kettle River Railway begins construction south.
• 1910 July 15
  B.C.: The Big Fire starts on Zincton Summit in the Slocans. Eventually wiped out much K&S trestle and bridgework.
• 1910 July 23
  Okanagan Landing, BC: CPR launches Kaleden (180 tons). Retired, 1917.
• 1910 Aug. 15
  Bridgend, AB: Lethbridge Collieries breaks ground for its Imperial mine.
• 1910 Aug. 17
  Dominion Copper Company dissolved.
• 1910 September
  Commerce, AB: Chinook Coal Company begins mining at a site 16 rail kilometres north-east of Kipp, AB. Worked till February 1924.
• 1910 Sep. 1
  Lethbridge, AB: Prime Minister Laurier opens the new Galt Hospital and nurses’ residence.
• 1910 Sep. 13
  Greenwood, BC: New Dominion Copper Company officially establishes its headquarters.
• 1910 Sep. 20
  Lethbridge, AB: Street names abandoned in favour of numbering system.
• 1910 Sep. 28
  Coleman, AB: Dr. Green, Mr. Beatty, Mr. Staples and Mr. Supple arrive from Cranbrook through the Crowsnest in an automobile. (From the September 30, 1910, edition of the Coleman Miner: reported by contributor Ian Mckenzie in an email to the author on 2010/05/03.
• 1910 October
  AB: Geo. Pearson begins campaign to pressure Department of the Interior to irrigate Coyote Flats.
• 1910 October
  Boundary Falls, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting begins shipping from the No. 7 nearby.
• 1910 Oct. 4
  Midway, BC: Kettle River Valley Railway begins construction west.
• 1910 Oct. 13
  B.C.: Bull River Electric Power completes its Canyon by-pass flume.
• 1910 November
  Lethbridge, AB: “Restricted Area” created to sequester Chinese. By-law repealed 1916.
• 1910 November
  Crawford Bay, BC: F.J. Cody convenes first school classes.
• 1910 November
  Father Albert LaCombe attends the dedication of Fa. LePine’s R.C. church in Coleman, Alberta.
• 1910 November
  Passburg, AB: school opened.
• 1910 Nov. 13
  New Frank, AB: Sacred Heart (Corpus Christi) RC Church opened.
• 1910 Nov. 22
  B.C.: Cascade tunnel work suspended in favour of the original Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway alignment up the Otter and over to the Coldwater north of Coquihalla Summit.
• 1910 December
  Passburg, AB: first 60 of 101 Mitchell coking ovens completed at Leitch Collieries.
• 1910 Dec. 9
  Bellevue, AB: 1900 hrs: 30 miners die in when explosion rocks West Canadian Collieries’ Bellevue mine.
• 1910 Dec. 21
  Nelson, BC: City halts the operation of its electric tramway.
• 1910 Dec. 24
  B.C.: K&S suspends operations.
• 1910 Dec. 15
  B.C.: R.H. Bohart begins a stage service between Wardner and Fort Steele.
• 1910 Dec. 17
  B.C.: Kettle River Valley Railway begins up Coldwater from Merritt.
• 1910 Dec. 25
  Victoria, BC: Francis Xavier Richter dies (born Prague, 1837).
• 1910 Dec. 29
  B.C.: Subdivion plan for East Elko submitted to CPR.
• 1911
  Federal political: legislation changes Kettle River Valley Railway to Kettle Valley Railway.
• 1911
  B.C.: Similkameen Fruit Land Company incorporated.
• 1911
  Fernie, BC: Emilio Picariello and family arrive.
• 1911
  B.C.: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway reclaims its right-of-way in the Coquihalla valley.
• 1911
  B.C.: E&N extended to Port Alberni from Nanaimo.
• 1911
  Kimberley, BC: Methodist Church burns.
• 1911
  Marquis variety of wheat made available to Alberta farmers.
• 1911
  Waterton Lakes National Park established in southern Alberta.
• 1911
  B.C.: Marysville Road opened between Kimberley and Marysville.
• 1911
  Marysville, BC: Laura and Ben Keer establish their dairying business.
• 1911
  The Geological Survey Branch of the Department of Mines in its Report of the Commission Appointed to Investigate Turtle Mountain, Frank, Alberta recommended the immediate evacuation of the original townsite of Frank, AB.
• 1911
  Coleman, AB: Geo. Ritchie arrives as the first Forest Ranger to be posted in the Pass.
• 1911
  Crowsnest Pass, AB: W.A. Beebe attempts to rescusitate Crow’s Nest and Prairie Electric Railway Company.
• 1911
  Rossland, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting buys the Le Roi Mine. Northport Smelting and Refining’s operation at Northport shut down.
• 1911
  Hedley, BC: New Zealand Hotel burns.
• 1911
  Grand Forks, BC: Construction of City Hall begins.
• 1911
  Blairmore, AB.: West Canadian Collieries builds new powerhouse at Blairmore South mine.
• 1911
  Columbia Coal and Coke Company, Limited, begins developing its Mount Carbon property at what would become Coalmont.
• 1911
  B.C. Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber sets up its Camp 8 on the Little Bull River in south-eastern BC.
• 1911
  Spokane International/BC Southern junction moved from Curzon to Yahk, BC.
• 1911
  C.O. Rodgers partnered with D.W. Briggs of Michigan to form the Canyon City Lumber Company.
• 1911
  Creston, BC: Superior School opened.
• 1911
  Kipp, AB: T.E. Skieth buys Watsons’ store.
• 1911
  B.C.: Boswell Kootenay Lake Union formed.
• 1911
  Farmer-owned Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Co. formed.
• 1911
  Hillcrest, AB: Hillcrest Collieries completes new powerhouse.
• 1911
  Princeton, BC: British Columbia Copper Company begins explorations on Copper Mountain properties.
• 1911
  B.C.: Department of Public Works builds bridge across Moyie Lake narrows.
• 1911
  Fernie, BC: Holy Family Church completed.
• 1911
  Coaldale, AB: Ellison Milling and Elevator Company, Limited, buys West Coast Grain Company’s elevator.
• 1911
  Coal Creek, BC: CNP Coal opens its No. 1 East.
• 1911
  AB: Senator Peter McLaren sells his Blairmore-based lumber company to Colonel A.G. Peucheon.
• 1911
  AB: CPR completes its Aldersyde Subdivision.
• 1911
  CP found legally responsible for causing a fire which destroyed private property. Watershed case.
• 1911
  Cowley, AB: Telephone system installed in the Village.
• 1911
  Macleod, AB: “Railroad Fever” strikes.
• 1911
  Vair, AB: Community near Lethbridge comes into being.
• 1911
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Provincial Gaol opened.
• 1911
  Lethbridge, AB: Burns Building finished.
• 1911
  Lethbridge, AB: “Slaughter House Slough” becomes “Henderson Lake.”
• 1911
  Lethbridge, AB: United Mine WOrkers of America walk out of Galt mines.
• 1911
  Lethbridge, AB: Sewerage treatment plant opened.
• 1911
  Lethbridge, AB: Carnegie Foundation had gifts City with $25,000 to build a proper library.
• 1911
  Lethbridge, AB: Nurse Maria Elizabeth Van Haarlem moves her hospital into larger quarters.
• 1911 Winter
  Fernie, BC.: The heaviest snowfall until then seen isolates the City to the point of privation before relief trains were dug through the drifts.
• 1911 Jan. 1
  CPR leases the paper Kootenay Central Railway for 999 years.
• 1911 Jan. 10
  Jaffray, BC: Postal bureau opened in the Manistee Lumber Company mill office nearby. Peter Lund, post master.
• 1911 Feb. 8
  Rock Creek, BC: Kettle Valley Railway track-laying crews westbound from Midway, BC, arrive.
• 1911 Feb. 28
  Rock Creek, BC: Kettle Valley Railway trackage pushed to the crossing of the Kettle River upstream.
• 1911 Mar. 6
  Elko, BC: Plan to build a Subdivion called East Elko accepted by CPR.
• 1911 Mar. 15
  United Mine Workers begin 6-month walk-out in the Crowsnest. “The Big Strike.”
• 1911 Mar. 16
  Fernie, BC: First session in the new Court House.
• 1911 Mar. 25
  AB: Bridgend (renamed “Coalhurst” in 1917) School District No. 2394 formed.
• 1911 Spring
  B.C.: Bull River Electric Power dewaters the Bull River canyon to recover gold: none.
• 1911 Spring
  Federal political: In response to the “Big Strike,” Ottawa suspends duty on American coal imported into Canada.
• 1911 April
  Phœnix Mountain, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting quits mining the Snowshoe.
• 1911 Apr. 1
  Western Coal Operators Association locks out striking UMWA in the Crowsnest Pass.
• 1911 Apr. 12
  Okanagan Landing, BC: CPR launches Castlegar (154 tons). Withdrawn 1925.
• 1911 Apr. 24
  Nakusp, BC: CPR launches Bonnington (1700 tons). Retired 1931, dismantled 1948.
• 1911 May 20
  War Eagle Consolidated Mining and Development Company dissolved.
• 1911 May 22
  B.C.: Canadian Northern Pacific and the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway exchange running rights on sections of their respective trackages in south-western B.C.
• 1911 May 27
  B.C.: GN sold the K&S for $25,000 to interests headed by James Anderson and John Ley Retallack of Kaslo.
• 1911 June 21
  B.C.: Nelson Electric Tramway re-commences (sporadic) operation.
• 1911 Summer
  B.C.: Bull River Electric Power completes its rock-crib dam on the Bull River in south-eatern BC.
• 1911 Summer
  Bull River, BC: CP builts the Kootenay Central Railway across the bridge.
• 1911 Summer
  Coalhurst, AB: The CPR lays the “Colliery Spur” from the CNL to the Imperial mine.
• 1911 July
  Princeton, BC: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway completes Bromley Ridge tunnel and begins building up the Tulameen.
• 1911 July 1
  Penticton, BC: Sod turned on the Kettle Valley Railway.
• 1911 July 11
  R.H. Bohart claimed to have driven the first car—a 30 horse-power Everitt made by the Trudhope Motor Company of Orillia, Ontario—through the Crowsnest Pass. However, reports contributor Ian Mckenzie in an email to the author on 2010/05/03, an article in the Coleman Miner dated September 30, 1910, credits Dr. Green, Mr. Beatty, Mr. Staples and Mr. Supple with having driven an automobile from Cranbrook through the Crowsnest on their way to Alix, Alberta, arriving in Coleman on the 28th.
• 1911 July 14
  Lethbridge, AB: Eugene Burton Ely, “the famous birdman,” wows the crowds in his Curtiss bi-plane. First heavier-than-air machine to fly the skies of Lethbridge.
• 1911 July 25
  Grand Forks, BC: Conflagration in downtown.
• 1911 Aug. 1
  Bridgend, AB: The Imperial mine begins production.
• 1911 Aug. 3
  Balfour, BC: CP opens Hotel Kootenay Lake.
• 1911 Aug. 30
  Burmis, AB: School district formed.
• 1911 Sep. 2
  Nelson, BC: John Bradshaw torches the old Hall Mines smelter works.
• 1911 Sep. 21
  Election, Federal: Robert Laird Borden elected Conservative prime minister of Canada. “Reciprocity”—free trade with the U.S.—dies with the Liberal defeat.
• 1911 Sep. 29
  Brookmere, BC: Kettle Valley Railway steel arrives.
• 1911 Sep. 29
  Blairmore, AB: granted patent as a Town. Gazetted October 24th, elected first council on November 1st.
• 1911 Autumn
  Hope, BC: Canadian Pacific Northern builds depôt.
• 1911 Oct. 10
  Honourable Robert Rogers appointed Minister of the Interior and superintendent-general of Indian Affairs.
• 1911 Oct. 10
  Honourable Francis Cochrane appointed Minister of Railways and Canals.
• 1911 Oct. 10
  Galloway, BC: The CPR opens its “Manistee” station.
• 1911 Nov. 10
  Coalmont, BC: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway arrives.
• 1911 Nov. 18
  B.C.: Bull River Electric Power reincorporated as the Bull River Hydro Electric Power Company.
• 1911 Nov. 22
  B.C.: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway announces the abandonment of the Cascade bore and declares its intent to revert to its original alignment up the Tulameen River.
• 1911 Nov. 29
  B.C.: Kettle Valley Railway from Merritt to Brookmere declared open.
• 1911 Dec. 20
  AB: The Highways Act adopted.
• 1911 Dec. 28
  Federal: CPR permitted to acquire Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company.
• 1911 Winter
  Tie and Timber Branch builds its dam and mill pond on the Bull River. Builds a mill.
• 1912
  L.W. Hill succeeds his father as chairman of the GN’s board of directors.
• 1912
  American Smelting and Refining Company shuts down and dismantles Everett smelter.
• 1912
  B.C.: Residential School at St. Eugene’s Mission completed on the St. Mary’s Reserve.
• 1912
  B.C.: The Union property staked on the Granby River north of Grand Forks.
• 1912
  Cranbrook, BC: Post Office building completed.
• 1912
  Grand Forks, BC: Courthouse in built.
• 1912
  Galloway, BC: CP raises a station?
• 1912
  Caithness, BC: Jewell Lumber Co. builds mill and school.
• 1912
  Jaffray, BC: ?CPR raises a small “Standard Western Lines Station”?
• 1912
  Elk River delta, BC: B.C. Fruit Farms begins selling five-acre plots for orchardry.
• 1912
  Beaver Mines, AB: Western Oil and Coal Consolidated Company completes its Kootenay And Alberta Railway from Kandary on the Crow’s Nest Line.
• 1912
  Hillcrest, AB: Hillcrest Collieries completes new steel tipple.
• 1912
  Bellevue, AB: Maple Leaf Coal Company expand powerhouse and build wash-house for the workers in the Mohawk Bituminous mine.
• 1912
  Lille, AB: West Canadian Collieries abandons its mine.
• 1912
  Hillcrest, AB: Hillcrest (Mission?) School completed.
• 1912
  Canadian Consolidated Coal Company, owner of the mine at Frank, AB., liquidated itself.
• 1912
  Blairmore, AB: F.M. Thompson & Co. relocated from Lille, AB.
• 1912
  The proto-Crowsnest Highway between Lethbridge, AB, and Fernie, BC, referred to as a “trunk” road.
• 1912
  Hillcrest, AB: The Anglican Parish of St. Francis organized and church built. Church closed 1954.
• 1912
  Fort Steele, BC: CP pushes the Kootenay Central Railway into town.
• 1912
  The CPR sets up its Department of Natural Resources, headquartered in Calgary.
• 1912
  Boswell, BC: School completed.
• 1912
  Eholt, BC: Fire destroys the CPR’s engine facilities.
• 1912
  Robert Rogers, Minister of the Interior, under pressure from contractors, allows southern Europeans to immigrate to work on railroads.
• 1912
  Lockhart, BC: Bob Yuill lays out townsite on Kootenay Lake for the province.
• 1912
  Yahk, BC: Yahk Hotel built.
• 1912
  Princeton, BC: the Princeton Hotel completed. Burned April, 2006.
• 1912
  Bellevue, AB: Bellevue School opened.
• 1912
  Lundbreck, AB: Galbraith Coal Company ceases operations.
• 1912
  Lundbreck, AB: Lund & Breckenridge Coal Company ceases operations.
• 1912
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt No. 7 was completed as an auxiliary access to No. 6
• 1912
  Lethbridge, AB: Hick-Sehl Building completed.
• 1912
  Bellevue, AB: St. Francis Anglican completed.
• 1912
  Bellevue, AB: Winnipeg Fuel & Supply Co. aquired the little lime-burning operation on the eastern edge of the Frank Slide debris field.
• 1912
  Princeton, BC: British Columbia Copper Company buys leases on Copper Mountain.
• 1912
  Cascade, BC: CPR replaces the great, curved, timber trestle with the present steel and concrete structure.
• 1912
  B.C.: CPR lands lose their tax-exempt status. The remaining 2.5 million acres sold to the province for $1,000,000.
• 1912
  Burmis, AB: CPR completes depot.
• 1912
  Lethbridge, AB: CPR inaugurates daily-except-Sunday return passenger services to Coutts, and to Cardston.
• 1912
  Cowley, AB: Western Canadian Polo Championship held.
• 1912
  Burmis, AB: Presbyterian Church completed.
• 1912
  Caithness, BC: CPR begins extending what would become its Waldo Subdivision southward down the Kootenay valley from the BC Southern.
• 1912
  Blairmore, AB: new Cosmopolitain Hotel completed.
• 1912
  Jewel Lake, BC: Jewel-Denoro Mines Company of Edinburgh completes its 15-stamp mill at the Jewel property near Greenwood.
• 1912
  Salmo, BC: Salmo Hotel completed.
• 1912 January
  CPR creates a Department of Natural Resources, headquartered in Calgary, AB. John Stoughton Dennis dept. head.
• 1912 Jan. 1
  AB: CPR officially leases Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company assets for 999 years.
• 1912 Feb. 13
  Board of Railway Commissioners approves Kettle Valley Railway’s plan to build down Coquihalla to Hope, BC.
• 1912 Feb. 16
  AB: Crow’s Nest Pass Street Railway Company incorporated. Line to run between Pincher Creek and Sentinel, AB.
• 1912 March
  Burmis, AB: Mr. Tonks begins teaching school classes in the Presbyterian church.
• 1912 Mar. 1
  Bellevue, AB: Union Bank of Canada opens branch.
• 1912 Mar. 9
  B.C.: Father Léon Fouquet dead (? at Mission de St. Eugene near Cranbrook).
• 1912 Mar. 28
  B.C. political: McBride and Conservatives returned to power on the strength of the Pacific Great Eastern proposal.
• 1912 Mar. 29
  AB: Town of Macleod re-incorporated under the laws of the Province.
• 1912 Spring
  Bull River, BC: CP’s Tie and Timber Branch occupies its new mill.
• 1912 Apr. 10
  B.C.: Kettle Valley Railway announces its intent to build up the Tulameen River.
• 1912 Apr. 26
  AB: Bridgend officially renamed “Coalhurst.”
• 1912 May
  Consolidated Mining and Smelting agrees to bankroll French’s Complex Ore Reduction Company’s construction of a one-ton-per-day experimental smelter to treat zinc’s ores at Nelson.
• 1912 May
  Lethbridge, AB: 1st Avenue S. extended westward down the coulee, beneath Viaduct and down to connect with the Macleod Trail.
• 1912 May 1
  B.C.: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway open between Princeton and Coalmont.
• 1912 May 1
  AB: Last of the great land tracts in the Lethbridge area opened for settlement. Process began in September of 1908.
• 1912 May 13
  B.C.: CPR buys the K&S and begins to rebuild it to standard gauge. Completed Nov. 13, 1913.
• 1912 May 14
  Federal political: Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec given vast tracts of the N-WT.
• 1912 May 19
  Fruitvale, BC: St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church hosted first service.
• 1912 May 19
  Lethbridge, AB: The local branch of the Mormon church becomes a “Ward” of the Taylor Stake.
• 1912 May 24
  Trail, BC: “Old” bridge opened.
• 1912 June 6
  Alaska: Mt. Katami in the panhandle began erupting, its ash cloud beginning to settle on the Kootenays 4 days later.
• 1912 June 23
  Merritt, BC: First passengers on the Kettle Valley Railway hauled on flatcars leave to inspect first 10 completed miles of the Kettle Valley Railway.
• 1912 June 29
  Macleod, AB: The Empress Theatre opens.
• 1912 June 30
  Sunday.
• 1912 June 30
  Regina, SK: Tornado rips through city resulting in 28 deaths and $4.5 millions in damages.
• 1912 July 17
  AB: Canadian Western Natural Gas, Light, Heat and Power Company completes its pipeline from its Bow Island field to Lethbridge.
• 1912 Aug. 16
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Municipal Railway inaugurated.
• 1912 Aug. 21
  Lethbridge, AB: Cornerstone laid for Bowman Manual Arts Training School.
• 1912 September
  Bull River, BC: School opens in community hall.
• 1912 Sep. 1
  Coalhurst, AB: Post Office opens.
• 1912 Sep. 2
  Calgary, AB: First Stampede begins its 5-day run.
• 1912 Sep. 12
  B.C.: CPR leases the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway for 99 years.
• 1912 Sep. 15
  Bull River, BC: Post office opened.
• 1912 Sep. 24
  Nelson, BC: Walter Edwards flies his re-assembled Curtiss.
• 1912 Oct. 10
  Lethbridge, AB: Bowman Manual Arts Training School opens.
• 1912 Oct. 26
  Lethbridge, AB: The five days of the 7th International Dry Farming Congress begin.
• 1912 Oct. 26
  Penticton, BC: The Kettle Valley Railway’s first locomotive arrives by barge: 2-6-0 Mogul. (see Dec. 20)
• 1912 Oct. 29
  Federal political: Honourable W.J. Roche appointed Minister of the Interior and superintendent-general of Indian Affairs.
• 1912 November
  Beasley, BC: The British Columbia Copper Company agreed to buy the Queen Victoria.
• 1912 Nov. 10
  Fernie, BC: Dedication of Holy Family Roman Catholic Church.
• 1912 Nov. 13
  B.C.: CPR completes standard-gauging the Kaslo & Slocan trackage.
• 1912 December
  Coal Creek, BC.: An avalanche destroys the caprtnery and electrical shops of Crow’s Nest Pass Coal’s surface works.
• 1912 Dec. 20
  Penticton, BC: First Kettle Valley Railway locomotive arrives by Lake Service. (see Oct. 26th)
• 1912 Dec. 31
  Lethbridge, AB: Big police raid on the unsavory enterprises on “The Point.”