Period 1913 – 1917

Period 1913 – 1917 for South-western Canada

• 1913
  A year of general economic decline caused by the withdrawal of European capital from world markets in anticipation of War.
• 1913
  Beasley, BC: The British Columbia Copper Company buys the Queen Victoria.
• 1913
  Erie, BC: Arlington mine closed.
• 1913
  AB: Laboratory completed at Dept. of the Interior’s Lethbridge quarantine station.
• 1913
  Lethbridge, AB: Nurse Maria Elizabeth Van Haarlem leases the Wimpole Hospital.
• 1913
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt Hospital and ancillary buildings trasferred to the City.
• 1913
  Lethbridge, AB: Macaroni factory built.
• 1913
  Lethbridge, AB: HBC Athletic Association builds nine-hole golfing course at Henderson Lake.
• 1913
  Lethbridge, AB: Purity Bottling Works opens.
• 1913
  I.R. 148, AB: Shot-on-Both-Sides becomes the Kainai head chief.
• 1913
  B.C.: C.R. Hosmer takes over the presidency of West Kootenay Power.
• 1913
  Brilliant, BC: Doukhobors complete their suspension bridge.
• 1913
  Blairmore, AB: West Canadian Collieries begins working its Greenhill mine.
• 1913
  St. Eugene’s Mission, BC: Barn of the Residential School completed.
• 1913
  B.C.: Consolidated Mining and Smelting leases the HB mine near Salmo to W.R. Salisbury.
• 1913
  B.C.: Completion of the grand Residential School barn at the St. Eugene’s Mission completed on the St. Mary’s Reserve.
• 1913
  Hillcrest, AB: Hillcrest Methodist Chruch founded. Closed 1980 as United Church.
• 1913
  Trans-Canada Cavalcade of autos travels through the Crowsnest Pass on its way from Halifax to Vancouver.
• 1913
  B.C.: J.A. (John) Finch of Spokane and Lorne Argyle Campbell form the Relief Gold Mining Company to acquire the Second Relief mine at Erie.
• 1913
  Boundary Falls, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting shuts down the No. 7 mine.
• 1913
  Kimberley, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting completes the purchase of the Sullivan properties.
• 1913
  B.C.: Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting begins developing its Anyox properties on the Coast.
• 1913
  Nelson, BC: Ferry service across West Arm established.
• 1913
  Burmis, AB: Record year for production from Davenport Coal Co.
• 1913
  Cowley, AB: “Big School” finished.
• 1913
  Beaver Mines, AB: Canadian Coal and Coke Company takes over assets of Western Coal and Coke Company.
• 1913
  AB: Farmer-owned Alberta Farmers Co-operative Elevator Co. formed.
• 1913
  AB: Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior send surveyors out determine best way to water Coyote Flats north of Macleod, Monarch.
• 1913
  Blairmore, AB: Rocky Mountain Cement’s peak production year.
• 1913
  B.C.: W.E. Welby’s stage line in the Similkameen and Okangan valleys goes out of business.
• 1913
  B.C.: Highway Branch formed within Department of Public Works.
• 1913
  Princeton, BC: B.C. Cement begins production in East Princeton.
• 1913
  Macleod, AB: The Public Works Building completed. Called since March 22nd, 1994, the “H.J. Friesen Building.”
• 1913
  Grand Forks, BC: CPR begins service into the Kettle Valley Railway’s station.
• 1913
  B.C.: School built at Glenlily (between Curzon and King’s Gate/Eastport).
• 1913
  Beaver Mines, AB: Western Oil and Coal Consolidated Company suspends coal mining operations.
• 1913 Jan. 6
  Burmis, AB.: One room school building opened for classes.
• 1913 Jan. 22
  Bull River, BC: Grand opening of the Tourist Hotel.
• 1913 March
  Corbin, BC.: Fire breaks out in Corbin Coal & Coke’s No. 1 mine.
• 1913 Mar. 7
  Vancouver, BC: E. Pauline Johnson dead.
• 1913 Mar. 13
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge County Club incorporated.
• 1913 April
  Coalmont, BC: Columbia Coal suspends operations until November.
• 1913 Apr. 9
  Gilman-Warren Agreement between GN and the Kettle Valley Railway for mutual construction of and operation on the Hope-Princeton section of their lines (finalized July 10, 1914).
• 1913 Apr. 17
  Election, AB: A.L. Sifton’s Liberals re-elected.
• 1913 Apr. 30
  Nelson, BC: CPR launches Nasookin (1869 tons). Leased to Province in 1931 as a car ferry across Kootenay Lake. Bought and re-built by Province in 1933, retired in 1947.
• 1913 May
  B.C.: Okanagan United Growers Limited organized.
• 1913 May
  World-wide general economic downturn begins caused by the flight of capital from risk to secure investments.
• 1913 May 20
  B.C.: B&N begins removing its hardware between Kuskonook and Creston Junction (Wynndel).
• 1913 May 25
  AB: 4 George V 1913 Chapter 22 “An Act to incorporate the City of Lethbridge” received royal assent, re-organizing City administration. Becomes effective January 1, 1914.
• 1913 May 29
  Calgary, AB: John Breckenridge dies.
• 1913 June 2
  Edmonton, AB: High Level Bridge opens.
• 1913 June 3
  Corbin, BC: Corbin C&C seals mine No. 1 at Coal Mountain. Fire.
• 1913 June 4
  Victoria, BC: Gilbert Malcolm Sproat dies.
• 1913 June 17
  Lethbridge, AB: Methodists lay cornerstone of Wesley Church. Completed in 1914.
• 1913 June 19
  Edmonton, AB: First train across the High Level Bridge.
• 1913 July
  Midway, BC: Explosion injures two in the coal mine of the Boundary Exploration and Mining Company, Limited. Mine shut down.
• 1913 July 1
  CPR leases the Kettle Valley Railway for 999 years.
• 1913 Aug. 7
  Wardner, BC: Tuesday: Planer mill buildings burn.
• 1913 Aug. 8
  GN takes over Kootenay Valley Railway.
• 1913 Aug. 24
  Lethbridge, AB: Roman Catholics lay cornerstone of St. Patrick’s Church.
• 1913 Sep. 1
  Deadwood, BC: 10:00 a.m. on Monday morning, the Big Blast at the Mother Lode mine.
• 1913 Sep. 2
  U.S.A.: Bill Miner dies in the Milledgeville State Prison in Georgia. (1947)
• 1913 Sep. 24
  Lethbridge, AB: First mass celebrated in uncompleted St. Patrick’s Church.
• 1913 Sep. 30
  B.C.: Sidley Post Office closes.
• 1913 Sep. 30
  Moyie, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting closes the St. Eugene.
• 1913 November
  Coalhurst, AB: Lethbridge Collieries transfers the Imperial mine to its subsidiary, Canada Coal & Coke, Ltd.
• 1913 Nov. 5
  Cardston, AB: Construction begins on Mormon temple. Completed in 1921, but unfurnished. Officially opened on August 23rd, 1926.
• 1913 Nov. 13
  CP completes reconstruction of the K&S and integration into the Nakusp and Slocan.
• 1913 Nov. 17
  Last spike driven on the National Transcontinental Railway.
• 1913 Nov. 20
  Fruitvale, BC: St. John the Evangelist Anglican church dedicated.
• 1913 Winter
  Mild weather. Coal prices plummet.
• 1913 December
  Armstrong, Morrison and Company of Vancouver begins work on the Hope road/railway bridge.
• 1913 Dec. 17
  AB: Coalhurst declared a Village.
• 1913 End
  The Kettle Valley Railway’s rails westbound from Penticton reach Osprey Lake in the Thompson Plateau; westbound from Midway reach Hydraulic Lake in the Okanagan Highlands.
• 1914
  Year of Drought in southern Alberta.
• 1914
  B.C.: E&N extended to Courtenay, 140 miles from Victoria.
• 1914
  Nelson, BC: CPR launches Nelson (25 tons). Sold 1920.
• 1914
  Balfour, BC: CP closes Hotel Kootenay Lake.
• 1914
  Lundbreck, AB: Reuben Steeve closes his brick yard.
• 1914
  Grand Forks, BC: CPR completes 15-stall roundhouse.
• 1914?
  Jaffray, BC: John Henderson and Helen Norris build Jaffray House Hotel.
• 1914
  Raymond, AB: Knight Sugar Company closes its processing plant and moves machinery to Cornish, ID.
• 1914
  Pincher Creek, AB: Lt. Col. A.C. Kemmis musters 13th Canadian Mounted Rifles (and the 23rd Alberta Rangers?) for training.
• 1914
  Blairmore, AB: West Canadian Collieries quits working Blairmore South mine.
• 1914
  Saratoga, NY: F.A. Heinze dies.
• 1914
  AB: Original Discovery Oil Company bought Rocky Mountain Development’s holdings in s-w Alberta, including Discovery No. 1. No work till 1919 and operations ceased 1920.
• 1914
  AB: CPR creates Lethbridge Divison under Superintendent F. Walker.
• 1914
  Blairmore, AB: Rocky Mountain Cement ceases production.
• 1914
  Blairmore, AB: Austrian Brick Works ceases production.
• 1914
  Lethbridge, AB: Mormons begin building a church.
• 1914
  Lethbridge, AB: Crystal Dairies began operations.
• 1914
  Lethbridge, AB: Hygienic Dairies began operations.
• 1914
  Raymond, AB: Knight Sugar plant closed.
• 1914
  Galloway, BC: A. McDonald and Company buys the Manistee Lumber Company’s mill.
• 1914
  Nelson, BC: Last year of mining the Silver King.
• 1914
  GN completes Washington Great Northern line from Wenatchee, WA, on the mainline to Oroville, WA.
• 1914 Jan. 1
  Sir William Mackenzie drives the last spike on the Canadian Northern Railway at Little White Otter River, Ontario.
• 1914 Jan. 14
  David Laird dies in Ottawa.
• 1914 February
  The Board of Railway Commissioners ruled that all locomotives in B.C. were to be converted to oil by 1915. Rescinded due to War.
• 1914 Feb. 1
  The City of Nelson, BC, buys its street tramway system.
• 1914 Feb. 14
  Last run of CP’s Spokane Flyer, Spokane, WA, to Minneapolis, MN.
• 1914 Feb. 22
  British Columbia Smelting and Refining Company dissolved.
• 1914 Feb. 23
  Calgary, AB: First Canadian Northern Railway passenger train arrives (from Saskatoon).
• 1914 Feb. 27
  Calgary, AB: First Grand Trunk Pacific Railway passenger train arrives.
• 1914 March
  Frank, AB: Canadian Consolidated Coal Company re-organized itself as Franco-Canadian Collieries to re-open and operate the troubled mine.
• 1914 Mar. 23
  Virginia: Canadian Copper Corporation, Limited, organized. Begins buying controlling interest in the B.C. Copper Company.
• 1914 Apr. 5
  ?Finmoore, BC: Last spike driven in Grand Trunk Pacific.
• 1914 Apr. 7
  ?Fort Fraser, BC: Last spike driven in Grand Trunk Pacific.
• 1914 Apr. 20
  Okanagan Landing, BC: CPR launches Naramata (150 tons). Retired 1967.
• 1914 May
  B.C.: J.M. Robinson sells interest in the Summerland Development Co. to Shaughnessy and associates.
• 1914 May 16
  Turner Valley, AB: Dingman well blows in.
• 1914 May 23
  Vancouver, BC: The Komagata Maru arrives with 376 East Indian passengers.
• 1914 May 26
  Okanagan Landing, BC: CPR launches Sicamous (1787 tons). Retired 1936.
• 1914 June
  Lethbridge, AB: The 25th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery re-equipped with 13-pounder guns.
• 1914 June 19
  Hillcrest, AB.: Friday, 9:30 a.m., 189 men die in Hillcrest mine.
• 1914 June 24
  CP’s Natural Resources Department announced the impending closure of its Hosmer mines.
• 1914 June 26
  B.C.: Canadian Copper Corporation, Limited, registered.
• 1914 June 28
  Sunday in Sarajevo, 10:30 a.m.: Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip shoots Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and Countess Sophie Chotek von Chotkova. Sophie dead at 10:45, Ferdinand dead at 11:00.
• 1914 July 1
  B.C.: CPR formally opens the Nakusp and Slocan Railway’s extension from Three Forks to Kaslo (Kaslo Subdividion).
• 1914 July 3
  Hosmer, BC: CPR’s Natural Resources Branch officially closes its mining operations.
• 1914 July 12
  Lake Okanagan, BC: Inaugural run of the Sicamous
• 1914 July 23
  Vancouver, BC: The Komagata Maru escorted out of harbour by HMS Rainbow, its 376 East Indian passengers (less 20 for medical reasons) having been refused permission to land.
• 1914 July 23
  The Coroner’s Jury report into the Hillcrest Mine disaster tabled at Coleman.
• 1914 Aug. 4
  King George V declares the British Empire in a state of war with Germany.
• 1914 Aug. 6
  Federal political: Minister of Militia and Defence, Colonel Sam Hughes, commands forces to begin recruiting.
• 1914 Aug. 15
  Panama Canal officially opened.
• 1914 Sep. 11
  B.C.: B&N ends all operations. Kootenai Valley Railway continues service from Bonner’s Ferry to the Boundary.
• 1914 October
  Hope, BC: The two-level rail/road bridge across the Fraser River complete.
• 1914 October
  Cowley, AB.: Davison’s store, P.O./telephone exchange, Pettits’ Restaurant, etc, burns.
• 1914 Oct. 2
  B.C.: Last spike on Kettle Valley Railway Midway-Penticton section (Carmi subdivision).
• 1914 Oct. 16
  B.C.: Midway to Penticton section of the Kettle Valley Railway declared open.
• 1914 Oct. 20
  B.C.: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway completes its connection from Princeton to the Kettle Valley Railway at Brookmere.
• 1914 Oct. 24
  Commissioner A.A. Carpenter submits the report on his enquiry into the Hillcrest Mine Disaster.
• 1914 Oct. 25
  B.C.: Last spike on Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway’s Brookmere-Princeton section driven by Louis Warren Hill.
• 1914 Nov. 16
  Lethbridge, AB: Recruiting Office for the 31st “Alberta’ Battalion, and the 3rd, 12th, and 13th Mounted Rifle Regiments opens at 0700 hours.
• 1914 Nov. 20
  Coalhurst, AB: The first meeting to organize an irrigation district on the Coyote Flats north of Monarch was convened.
• 1914 December
  B.C.: Last spike in the Kootenay Central Railway driven.
• 1914 Dec. 5
  B.C. political: Sir F.S. Bernard commissioned as the lieutenant-governor.
• 1914 Dec. 30
  Hope, BC: Rails laid on the road/railway bridge.
• 1915
  Hedley, BC: Hedley Gold Mining Company builds dam and hydro-generating station on the Similkameen.
• 1915
  B.C.: Bull River Hydro Electric Power launches suit against CP for damage to its Flume. Settled in 1918.
• 1915
  Valentine Hyde Baker retires to England.
• 1915
  Burmis, AB: Davenport Coal Company operation shut down and equipment eventually to Wayne, AB.
• 1915
  Bellevue, AB: Maple Leaf Coal Co. shuts down the Mohawk.
• 1915
  Greenwood, BC: Post Office building completed.
• 1915
  Kimberley, BC: Taylor brothers abandon their sawmill.
• 1915
  Pincher Creek, AB: Fire takes top floor of Lebel’s stone-built department store.
• 1915
  Fructova, BC: Doukhobors complete flour mill near Grand Forks.
• 1915
  AB.: Doukhobors of Nastasia’s Party begin settling in the Cowley area, eventually owning some 12,000 acres.
• 1915
  Grand Forks, BC: Bell tower of city hall completed.
• 1915
  Coalhurst, AB: Pacific Hotel burns.
• 1915
  Coalhurst, AB: Canada Coal and Coke suspends operations at the Imperial.
• 1915
  Bellevue, AB: St. Cyril’s RC Church completed.
• 1915
  Christina Lake, BC: Lodge Hotel raised.
• 1915
  Lethbridge, AB: Bowman Manual Arts Training School converted to a high school.
• 1915
  Lethbridge, AB: Peter Lund and his son, Roger Chas., set up P. Lund and Son Lumber and soon have outlets in Macleod, Coaldale, Chin, Barnwell, as well as Lethbridge. Sold out to Beaver Lumber in 1917.
• 1915
  Coal Mountain, BC: Corbin C&C set up a steam shovel on the “Big Showing” and begin to strip mine.
• 1915 Jan. 1
  Great North Western Telegraph Company absorbed by the Canadian Northern Telegraph Company.
• 1915 Jan. 8
  H.G. Bellinger of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry dies at the Ypres salient. First Canadian known to have been killed in WWI.
• 1915 Jan. 23
  Basque, BC: William Mackenzie drives last spike in Canadian Northern Railway.
• 1915 Mar. 15
  Passburg, AB: Lietch Collieries closes its mine.
• 1915 Spring
  Princeton, BC: The Kettle Valley Railway completes its Tulameen River bridge.
• 1915 Mar. 26
  Beaver Mines, AB: Canadian Coal and Coke Company closes its mines.
• 1915 Apr. 21
  Princeton, BC: Track-laying supervisor Charles Taylor drives the last spike of the Kettle Valley Railway’s Penticton–Merritt section.
• 1915 Apr. 22
  Europe: Poison gas used for the first time in war. French North-African colonial troops suffer at the Ypres salient.
• 1915 Apr. 23
  Princeton, BC: Switch installed connecting the Kettle River Railway to the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway, completing the Kettle Valley Railway between Merrittt and Midway.
• 1915 Apr. 24
  Canadians at the Ypres salient suffer first gas attack.
• 1915 May 7
  North Atlantic: German U-boat sinks the Cunard ocean-liner RMS Lusitania off Ireland.
• 1915 May 15
  Manistee, BC: Peter Lund ceases to be post master in the Manistee Lumber postal bureau.
• 1915 May 31
  Kettle Valley Railway between Penticton and Spences Bridge formally opened and passenger service commences.
• 1915 June
  Canadian Government Railways becomes a corporate entity. Operated the National Transcontinental Railway between Winnipeg and Moncton, and parts of the Intercolonial Railway between Moncton and Halifax.
• 1915 June
  Consolidated Mining and Smelting ends its participation with French’s Complex Ore Reduction Company in the construction of the latter’s experimental smelter at Nelson.
• 1915 June 8
  Tuesday.
• 1915 June 8
  United Mine Workers fragment as the “British” members walk out of the Crowsnest mines to protest the continuing employment of “enemy aliens.”
• 1915 June 9
  Fernie, BC: Internment of German and Austrian nationals in the curling rink begins.
• 1915 June 15
  Hillcrest, AB: Workers strike Hillcrest Collieries for one day protesting the continued employment of “enemy aliens” in the works.
• 1915 July 1
  Saskatchewan goes “dry.”
• 1915 July 1
  B.C.: With a change in the name of the postal bureau under W.T. Levy, Manistee reverts to its former name of “Galloway.”
• 1915 July 16
  Hope, BC: Quintette bridges nearby finished.
• 1915 July 21
  AB: Provincial prohibition plebiscite: 61% pro.
• 1915 July 22
  Halifax, NS: Sir Sanford Fleming dead. (1827)
• 1915 Aug. 4
  AB: Old Man River declared to be the main contributer to the stream formed by the confluence of the Belly River and the Old Man. Name of River officially changed from “Belly” to “Oldman.”
• 1915 Sep. 11
  William Cornelius Van Horne dead (1843).
• 1915 Sep. 15
  WA: Northport Smelting and Refining sells the Northport smelter, dormant since 1911, to Edgar Day of the Hercules Mining Company and the Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Mining Co.
• 1915 Sep. 30
  Lethbridge, AB: Internment camp opens on “Ex” grounds. Closed November 7th, 1916.
• 1915 Oct. 3
  Sunday:
• 1915 Oct. 3
  Victoria, BC: Peter Creake Fernie dies.
• 1915 Oct. 20
  AB political: Dr. Robert George Brett appointed lieutenant-governor (to Oct. 29th, 1925).
• 1915 Dec. 15
  B.C. political: Premier Richard McBride resigns and replaced by Wm. John Bowser as Conservative premier.
• 1916
  “Royal Commission to Inquire into Railways and Transportation in Canada” appointed.
• 1916
  Hope, BC: Canadian Northern Railway completes its station.
• 1916
  Cawston, BC: Post Office established. Stewart-Calvert Company of Seattle begins operations at Spotted Lake near Osoyoos.
• 1916
  The Western Federation of Miners changed its name to the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers—Mine-Mill.
• 1916
  Consolidated Mining and Smelting buys the Emma from Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting.
• 1916
  Moyie, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting renovates St. Eugene’s concentrator for Diamond’s experiments.
• 1916
  B.C.: Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber abandons Camp 8 on the Little Bull River.
• 1916
  Hope, BC: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway builds a 3-stall enginehouse near Canadian Northern Pacific’s depôt.
• 1916
  B.C.: The CPR renames its station in Kitchener “Cadona.”
• 1916
  B.C.: GN salvaged the Beddlington and Neslon Railway line.
• 1916
  Frank, AB: The “big school” torn down.
• 1916
  Brocket, AB: United Farmers of Alberta build a grain elevator.
• 1916
  Lethbridge, AB: Post Office building completed.
• 1916
  Jewel-Denoro Mines Company of Edinburgh ceases operations at the Jewel property near Greenwood and dismantles mill.
• 1916
  Hedley, BC: Similkameen Hotel burns.
• 1916
  L.C. Hill, Osoyoos pioneer orchardist, dies.
• 1916
  Grasmere, BC: Michael Phillipps dead at home on Tobacco Plains.
• 1916
  West Kootenay Power supplied to the Northport smelter.
• 1916 Circa
  Revelstoke Lumber Company acquires Yale-Columbia Lumber Company, Limited, mill at Cascade.
• 1916 January
  West Kootenay Power and Light Company transferred to Consolidated Mining and Smelting.
• 1916 Jan. 28
  Manitoba: Women get provincial vote for first time.
• 1916 February
  Coalhurst, AB.: Lethbridge Collieries transfers operation of the Imperial mine to North American Collieries, Ltd.. Mining recommences.
• 1916 Feb. 23
  Coalhurst, AB.: Standard Bank of Canada opens a branch office.
• 1916 Mar. 11
  Boswell Fruit Growers Association incorporated.
• 1916 Mar. 14
  Saskatchewan: Women enfranchised in Saskatchewan.
• 1916 Spring
  Ottawa appoints Royal Commission to Inquire into Railways and Transportation in Canada.
• 1916 Apr. 1
  Canadian Government Railways assumes final corporate form.
• 1916 Apr. 1
  RN-WMP create the Crowsnest Pass Subdivision with its headquarters at Blairmore, AB.
• 1916 Apr. 19
  Alberta adopts the Equal Suffrage Statutory Law Amendment Act giving Women the right to Vote.
• 1916 May 29
  James Jerome Hill dead.
• 1916 June 18
  B.C.: CM&S dam on Mark Creek fails. Kimberley, Chapman Camp, and Marysville flooded.
• 1916 July 1
  Prohibition in Alberta (to April 12th, 1924).
• 1916 July 1
  Prohibition in Manitoba.
• 1916 July 18
  John George “Kootenai” Brown dead at Waterton, AB.
• 1916 July 20
  Jaffray, B.C.: East Kootenay Lumber Co. mill burns. $30,000 in damage.
• 1916 July 31
  Coquihalla section of Kettle Valley Railway opened and the Crow’s Nest Line officially complete; 961.7 miles from Medicine Hat to Vancouver, 299 miles from Odlum to Midway.
• 1916 Aug. 8
  Twelve die in three explosions at Michel’s New No. 3 East Mine.
• 1916 Aug. 8
  Edgar Dewdney dies in Victoria, BC. Interred in Ross Bay Cemetery.
• 1916 Sep. 14
  B.C. political: 14th General Election, but results delayed until Soldiers” votes could be counted
• 1916 Sep. 27–28
  The only occasion that GN drives a train over its “third mainline”: L.W. Hill travels from Vancouver to Spokane.
• 1916 November
  CP exercised its option to accumulate 52% of Spokane International Railway’s stock.
• 1916 Nov. 23
  B.C. political: Harlan Carey Brewster installed as Liberal premier. (dies in office March 1, 1918).
• 1916 Nov. 2
  Alberni, B.C.: “Big John” Kirkup, formerly of Midway, B.C., dead.
• 1916 Dec. 9
  Connaught Tunnel officially opened.
• 1916 Dec. 16
  Midnapore, AB.: Father Albert LaCombe dies. Buried in St. Albert.
• 1916 Dec. 31
  Liquor prohibited in Saskatchewan.