Period 1917 – 1922

Period 1917 – 1922 for South-western Canada

• 1917
  Western Pine Company relocates mill up the Granby River from Smelter Lake at Grand Forks, BC, to Lynch Creek.
• 1917
  Keremeos, BC.: present museum building moved to Lower Keremeos from “the Centre” as the jail.
• 1917
  Stewart-Calvert Company buys Spotted Lake near Osoyoos, BC.
• 1917
  Stewart-Calvert begins mining fluorspar from the Rock Candy property on the Granby River.
• 1917
  CP renames its “Cadona” station at Kitchener, B.C., “McConnel.”
• 1917
  Wardner, B.C.: CP replaces wooden Howe-truss bridge across the Kootenay with steel spans.
• 1917
  Jaffray, B.C.: New “Class ‘A'” school built?
• 1917
  I.R. 148, AB.: DIA forces referena on the sale of two blocks totalling 90,000 acres of the Kainai Reserve. Rejected in first referendum, and after much threat and coersion, accepted in a second Referendum. Sale never implemented because public inquiry revealed the extent of the coersion.
• 1917
  AB.: Old Frank Road built through the debrise field of the Frank Slide.
• 1917
  Frank, AB.: Rocky Mountains Sanatorium taken over by the federal government as the “Frank Military Hospital.”
• 1917
  CP’s Tie and Timber Branch buys King Lumber’s cut-blocks and sets up a Mill at Yahk, BC.
• 1917
  B.C.: Workman’s Compensation Act implemented.
• 1917
  AB: Crowsnest and Tent Mountain Railway incorporated.
• 1917
  Calgary, AB: Rev. John Chantler McDougall dies.
• 1917
  B.C.: Canada Copper Corporation dedicates itself to developing Copper Mountain properties.
• 1917
  Hope, BC: Kettle Valley Railway completes its 3-stall locomotive shed.
• 1917
  Pat Burns of Calgary et al take over the Coalmont Collieries near Princeton, BC.
• 1917
  B.C.: East Princeton Coal and Land Company fails.
• 1917
  B.C.: North Star Lumber Co. folds.
• 1917
  AB: Rails of the Kootenay And Alberta Railway removed and sent to the Western Front in France.
• 1917
  AB: CPR completes Sterling–Manyberries branch.
• 1917
  Cranbrook, BC: Cranbrook Sash and Door mill burns.
• 1917
  Lethbridge, AB: Orange Line of the Lethbridge Municipal Railway discontinued.
• 1917
  Lethbridge, AB: Waterworks expanded and chlorination plant installed.
• 1917
  Bellevue, AB: Coles family opens the Rex Theatre.
• 1917
  Taber, AB: Father Leonard Van Tighem dead.
• 1917
  Frank, AB: explosion levels surface plant of Franco-Canadian Collieries mine.
• 1917
  McLaren Lumber Co. timber reserves in the Allison Creek valley of southern Alberta burn.
• 1917
  AB: The Pincher Creek Cöoperative Association of the UFA helps organize the Southern Alberta Hay Growers Association to import cattle feed into south-west Alberta to avert catastrophe.
• 1917
  Corbin Coal and Coke begin outputing from mine No. 4 at Coal Mountain, BC.
• 1917 Jan. 1
  Saskatchewan Provincial Police begin duties.
• 1917 Jan. 17
  Victoria, BC: Eugene Sayer Topping dies.
• 1917 Jan. 30
  B.C.: Joint Kettle Valley Railway/Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway station at Brookmere burns.
• 1917 Feb. 3
  U.S. severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
• 1917 Mar. 1
  AB: Province cancels contract with RN-WM Police; Alberta Provincial Police established under Major A.E.C. McDonnell to enforce provincial Law.
• 1917 April
  Tanglefoot, BC: Post office opens at CPR Tie and Timber’s Camp 6 on the Bull River lot.
• 1917 Apr. 5
  Explosion in Coal Creek No. 3 kills 34.
• 1917 Apr. 5
  An Act to amend the Provincial Election Act gives women the right to vote in B.C.
• 1917 Apr. 6
  U.S. declares war on Germany.
• 1917 Apr. 9
  Canadian Army’s assault on Vimy Ridge. Success, but 11,297 casualties.
• 1917 May
  Royal Commission to Inquire into Railways and Transportation in Canada recommends that Ottawa assume control of Grand Trunk Pacific group and Canadian Northern, and amalgamate them.
• 1917 May 1
  D.C. Corbin retires from the directorship of the Spokane International Railway.
• 1917 June 16
  Lethbridge, AB: Federal Coals Ltd. takes over old Sheran works.
• 1917 June 17
  Alberta Election: A.L. Sifton’s Liberals re-elected.
• 1917 July
  Lethbridge, AB: Fire Department acquired a LaFrance pumper.
• 1917 Aug. 1
  Federal political: Minister of Railways, Thos. White, announces immediate nationalization of the Canadian Northern Railway.
• 1917 Aug. 7
  Lethbridge, AB: First Chautauqua in Canada.
• 1917 Aug. 9
  Trail, BC: Big Fire in downtown.
• 1917 Aug. 28
  Bellevue, AB: Fire begins at 0755 hours in downtown.
• 1917 Aug. 29
  Federal political: Military Service Act receives royal assent: imposes conscription in Canada.
• 1917 Aug. 29
  Federal political: Soldier Settlement Act given assent: empowered to buy land for the settlement of returning soldiers.
• 1917 September
  AB: Industrial Workers of the World radicals lead coal miners out on short strike in the Pass.
• 1917 Sep. 17
  Federal: McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke incorporated.
• 1917 Sep. 21
  AB: Found by contributor Ian McKenzie in his 2010/02/05 email to the author,a report in the Blairmore Enterprise of this date and again in the October 12th edition, that “…the long-awaited improved connection between BC and Alberta roadways (the route that skirted the southern edge of Crowsnest Lake, replacing the Phillipps Pass route), occurred at the Crowsnest Pass on Thanksgiving 1917. It was attended by Alberta provincial government dignitaries and driving groups from both Fernie and Coleman/Blairmore, who grouped their cars astride the Great Divide for photos.”
• 1917 Autumn
  AB: The miserable harvest from a dry year in the south-west. Beginning of a drought that lasted through 1919 and didn’t really break until the early ’20s.
• 1917 Oct. 1
  B.C.: Prohibition Act (1917) declared. (To June, 1921)
• 1917 Oct. 30
  AB political: Charles Stewart succeeds Sifton as Liberal premier of Alberta.
• 1917 Nov. 16
  Lethbridge, AB: Federal Coals Ltd. takes over old Pioneer mine.
• 1917 Dec. 6
  Mont Blanc explodes in Halifax harbour: 1600 dead.
• 1917 Dec. 7
  AB: Bridgend S.D. renamed “Coalhurst” S.D.
• 1917 Dec. 17
  Election, federal: R.L. Borden elected Unionist prime minister of Canada. Honourable Arthur Meighen appointed Minister of the Interior and superintendent-general of Indian Affairs. Honourable J.D. Reid appointed Minister of Railways and Canals.
• 1918
  B.C.: Soldiers’ Land Act passed.
• 1918
  AB: Workman’s Compensation Act of Alberta implemented.
• 1918
  AB: Lethbridge Coal Company begins operations between Lethbridge and Coalhurst. Worked until 1925.
• 1918
  After suffering hostility and intollerance in the USA during the Great War, Hutterites began to migrate to Alberta and Manitoba.
• 1918
  Erie, BC: Relief Gold Mining Company ceases mining the Second Relief.
• 1918
  Kimberley, BC: O.C. Thompson et al re-open the North Star mine.
• 1918
  Bull River, BC: Proper school building raised.
• 1918
  Yahk, BC: School built.
• 1918
  Hanbury, BC: Jewll Lumber Co. closes mill and focuses business on its Caithness, B.C., operation.
• 1918
  Jaffray, BC: Desrosiers’ old hotel burns.
• 1918
  AB: Parts of the coast-to-coast road graded around Lethbridge.
• 1918
  AB: Lieutenant-Colonel W.C. Bryan succeeds as commissioner of the Alberta Provincial Police.
• 1918
  Yahk, BC: CPR Hall built.
• 1918
  Federal political: Industrial Workers of the World branded a subversive organization and excluded from Canada.
• 1918 January
  Federal political: Conscription implemented.
• 1918 January
  Blairmore, AB: Emilio Picariello buys Alberta Hotel from Fritz Sick.
• 1918 January
  Lethbridge, AB: An organization for the benefit of returning veterans discussed.
• 1918 Mar. 1
  B.C. political: Premier Brewster dead.
• 1918 Mar. 6
  B.C. political: John Oliver selected as Liberal premier. Initiates irrigation/settlement project in South Okanagan.
• 1918 April
  Federal political: Indian Act amended to legalize the expropriation of reserve lands.
• 1918 Apr. 1
  Federal political: The interprovincial shipment of liquor prohibited (till December, 1919).
• 1918 Apr. 1
  AB: Total prohibition declared.
• 1918 Apr. 7
  A Sunday.
• 1818 Apr. 7
  Haven, AB: Edith (Ede) Winifred Pope born at Haven, near Oyen.
• 1918 May
  Madrid, Spain: First reports of influenza.
• 1918 May 24
  Federal political: Women enfranchised.
• 1918 June 29
  Daniel Chase Corbin dead (1832).
• 1918 June 30
  Lethbridge, AB: Mormons dedicate their church begun in 1914.
• 1918 July 2
  Lethbridge, AB: “The Great War Veterans’ Association” formally organized with a slate of officers.
• 1918 July 9
  AB: Katherine Stinson flies mail from Calgary to Edmonton, the first airmail delivery in the province.
• 1918 July 27
  Lethbridge, AB: Katherine Stinson lands her Curtiss “Special” on the infield of the Exhibition Grounds.
• 1918 Sep. 9
  Returning troops bring the Spanish Influenza to Canada.
• 1918 October
  Macleod, AB, devastated by “the Spanish Flu.”
• 1918 Oct. 15
  MOrrissey, BC: The last of the prisoners locally incarcerated sent to Kapuscasing, Ont.
• 1918 Nov. 11
  Armistice Day: at 1100 hours the guns of WWI fall silent.
• 1918 Nov. 26
  Greenwood, BC: Canada Copper Corporation shuts down the Anaconda smelter.
• 1918 Dec. 20
  Six Nations Reserve, ON: League of Indians of Canada founded: F.O. Loft, president.
• 1919
  Poor Crop year on the southern Prairies.
• 1919
  Castlegar, BC: Province assumes the Doukhobors’ trans-Columbia ferry operations.
• 1919
  Spotted Lake, BC: Stewart-Calvert Company ceases operations.
• 1919
  Cascade, BC: Stewart-Calvert begins mining chromate from the Mastadon group.
• 1919
  Creston, BC: Camp Lister community established for veterans.
• 1919
  Lethbridge, AB: Baan An Tong (Good Health Medicine) building constructed.
• 1919
  Lethbridge, AB: United Mine WOrkers of America walk out of Galt mines.
• 1919
  Fernie, BC: The United Mine Workers of America’s newspaper, the District Ledger, ceased publication.
• 1919
  Greenwood, BC: CPR abandons spur to the Mother Lode mine.
• 1919
  Coleman, AB: “West Ward School” completed.
• 1919
  B.C.: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway lifts steel from Phœnix spur.
• 1919
  Princeton, BC: St. Peter’s Church opens.
• 1919
  Macleod, AB: “D” Division of the RN-WMP disbanded leaving Macleod, once the headquarters of the N-WMP, a mere outpost.
• 1919
  Bellevue, AB: Bellevue Collieries created by Carlyle & Johnson of Calgary to buy the Mohawk.
• 1919
  J.J. Warren, president of the Kettle Valley Railway, appointed president of Consolidated Mining and Smelting.
• 1919
  Warfield, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting buys property to develop a farm.
• 1919
  Coal Mountain, BC: Corbin C&C began to develop its No. 5 and No. 6 mines.
• 1919
  Kimberley, BC: Fire wiped out the North Star’s surface plant and threatens town.
• 1919
  Kimberley, BC: Bank of Montreal opens the first bank in the community.
• 1919
  B.C.: Government sawmill begins operations near Oliver.
• 1919
  Bellevue, AB: four rooms added to Bellevue School.
• 1919
  Lethbridge, AB: Nurse Maria Elizabeth Van Haarlem buys the Wimpole Hospital.
• 1919
  Lethbridge, AB: John K. Hamilton begins working the old McNab mine. Quit in 1926.
• 1919
  Lethbridge, AB: The Anglican’s St. Cyprian’s renamed “St. Augustine’s.”
• 1919
  Camp McKinney, BC: Forest fire razes the derelict community.
• 1919
  Salmo, BC: The Iron Mountain Limited completes a concentration mill on the Emerald property nearby.
• 1919
  Kettle Valley Railway pushes its Fifth Subdivision further up the Granby River to Lynch Creek.
• 1919 Jan. 3
  South Okanagan Lands Project (SOLP) begins work on McIntyre Intake Dam near Oliver on Okanagan River.
• 1919 Jan. 16
  Volsted Act enforced the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol (Rescinded on December 5, 1933).
• 1919 Jan. 30
  South Okanagan Irrigation Project kicked off as construction of Intake Dam at the base of McIntyre Bluff begins. Completed in 1921.
• 1919 Jan. 30
  Major-general Sir Samuel Benfield Steele (Jan. 5, 1851 [1849?] dies.
• 1919 Feb. 17
  Sir Wilfrid Laurier dies in Ottawa. (1841/11/20)
• 1919 March
  World economy slips into Recession.
• 1919 March
  Calgary, AB.: general meeting of western Labour organizations resolves to cut ties to Dominion Trades and Labour Congress.
• 1919 May
  Wynndel, BC: Alice Broughton Mining Company closes the Alice nearby and salvages.
• 1919 May
  AB & BC: United Mine Workers of America begin a 4-month long strike against District 18 mines to protest wage reductions. Radical One Big Union personnel usurp leadership of the strike, formed OBU District 1.
• 1919 May 3
  New Dominion Copper Company, Limited, head office moved to that of the Canada Copper Corporation in Allenby, B.C.
• 1919 May 15
  Winnipeg, MB: Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council calls out its members in a General Strike at 1100 hours. Violently suppressed; ended June 28th.
• 1919 May 21
  Wednesday.
• 1919 May 21
  B.C.: Minister of Lands, T.C. Patullo, begins accepting bids for the construction of the South Okanagan Irrigation Project main canal.
• 1919 June 1
  CPR inaugurates Kootenay Express, No. 11, westbound, and Kettle Valley Express, No. 12, eastbound, on its Kettle Valley Railway.
• 1919 June 6
  Federal: Canadian National Railway incorporated, consolidating the Canadian Northern Railway and the Canadian Government Railways consisting of the Intercolonial Railway, the National Transcontinental Railway, the Prince Edward Island Railway, and the Hudson Ray Railway under the executive largely of the CNoR led by David Blythe Hanna, president.
• 1919 June 18
  Winnipeg, MB: Eight of the strike leaders arrested.
• 1919 June 20
  Grand Forks, BC: The Granby smelter begins laying off workers.
• 1919 June 21
  Winnipeg, MB.: RN-WMPolice and “Specials” kill two in the “Winnipeg Riot.”
• 1919 June 25
  Winnipeg, MB.:”Winnipeg General Strike” ended.
• 1919 June 28
  Paris: Treaty of Versailles signed.
• 1919 July 7
  Canada: Soldier Settlement Act, revised, given assent.
• 1919 Aug. 7
  B.C. and AB.: Captain Ernest Charles Hoy, DFC, flies his Curtiss JN4 “Jenny” from Vancouver to Calgary in 16 hrs and 22 minutes, the first pilot to fly over the Rockies. Stopped for fuel in Vernon, Grand Forks, Cranbrook, Lethbridge before arriving in Calgary at 2055 hrs.
• 1919 Sep. 7
  Canada: International Coal and Coke Company, Limited, incorporates under federal Canadian law.
• 1919 Sep. 8
  Elko, B.C.: conflagration destroys a significant portion of the central business district.
• 1919 Sep. 20
  Twelve Mile School house, AB: Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District organized.
• 1919 Sep. 27
  The Kettle Valley Lines cease operating the paper Spokane and British Columbia Railway.
• 1919 October
  AB: Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District formed under Irrigation Districts Act. Engages H.B. Muckleston as chief engineer.
• 1919 Nov. 20
  Federal political: Formation of RCMPolice formally announced.
• 1919 Winter
  Comes early with cattle-killing cold.
• 1919 Dec. 5
  Calgary, AB.: A Friday. James Wesley Wilson born.
• 1919 Dec. 9
  BC political: Colonel E.G. Prior commissioned as the lieutenant-governor.
• 1920
  Crop Failure on southern Prairies.
• 1920
  On the first edition of its provincial road maps, Alberta’s Department of Public Works colour-codes its auto routes. Proto Crowsnest Highway named the “Red Route.”
• 1920
  Blairmore, AB: Enrico Pozzi completes West Canadian Collieries’ office building.
• 1920
  B.C.: Union Mining and Milling Company, Limited, incorporated to mine properties on the Granby River north of Grand Forks.
• 1920
  Greenwood, BC: City contracts to buy its electricity from West Kootenay Power and Light.
• 1920
  CP leases the Kaslo and Slocan Railway, and the Nakusp and Slocan Railway, for 99 years.
• 1920
  D’A.C. Coleman, CP’s vice-president of CP’s Western Lines, replaces J.J. Warren as president of the Kettle Valley Railway.
• 1920
  B.C.: Southern Okanagan Land Project buys Southern Okanagan Land Company’s holdings on Lake Osoyoos.
• 1920
  Penticton, BC: Kettle Valley Railway lays trackage from its South Penticton yards two miles south to Skaha.
• 1920
  Yahk, BC: Superior school opened. Expanded in 1922.
• 1920
  Federal: The assets of the bankrupt Grand Trunk Pacific Railway absorbed into the Canadian National.
• 1920
  Marysville, BC: Bird bros. buy Central Hotel.
• 1920
  Kimberley, BC: Core building of the Central School complete.
• 1920
  Federal political: Post of Commissioner of Indian Affairs resurrected and Wm. Morris Graham appointed.
• 1920
  B.C.: “The Cutoff,” that portion of modern Highway 3B between Wanita Junction and Montrose, finished.
• 1920
  Riondel, BC: Canadian Metals Company upgrades machinery in the Bluebell mine.
• 1920
  Grand Forks, BC: The Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway and the Kettle Valley Railway pulls its Granby smelter spurs.
• 1920
  Okanagan Landing, BC: CPR launches Kelowna (96 tons). Withdrawn 1956.
• 1920
  Nakusp, BC: CPR launches Columbia (90 tons). Withdrawn 1947.
• 1920
  Yahk, BC: The B.C. Provincial Police open an office.
• 1920
  Elko, BC: New water distribution system freezes, ruptures. Not repaired.
• 1920
  Elko, BC: Entrepreneurs assess potential of Elk River Falls to generate power.
• 1920
  Burmis, AB: The James Hardin Eddy family buys W.A. Brown’s general store.
• 1920
  Sentinel, AB: On a make-shift airstrip, the first airplane to land in the Crowsnest area.
• 1920
  Contiguous motorable road from Medicine Hat, AB, to Creston, BC, completed.
• 1920
  Morrissey, BC: CNP Coal closed the Carbonado coal mine for the last time.
• 1920
  Southern Alberta: crop failure.
• 1920 February
  Coalhurst, AB: School burns. Rebuilt.
• 1920 Feb. 1
  The Royal North-West Mounted Police amalgamated with the Dominion Police to become the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• 1920 Feb. 17
  British Columbia and Alberta Power Company incorporated to buy up the assets of the Bull River Hydro Electric Power Company: A.E. Appleyard of Minneapolis, president; J.C. Donald of New York City, general manager.
• 1920 Mar. 24
  Lethbridge, AB: John Ender Palmer and Hugh Hervey Fitzsimmons form Lethbridge Aircraft Co. Ltd.
• 1920 May 1
  OBU organizer Tommy Roberts calls a general strike in the Sandon area mines. Destroyed what little was left of the industry crippled by the post-war market collapse.
• 1920 May 3
  Canada Copper Corporation moves the New Dominion Copper Company’s headquarters from Greenwood to Allenby, B.C.
• 1920 May 20
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Aircraft Co. Ltd. obtains its first airplane, a Curtiss JN-4 “Canuck.”
• 1920 May 20
  AB: Lethbridge Aircraft Co. Ltd. incorporated.
• 1920 June 5
  Beaver Mines, AB: Beaver Mines Women’s Institute formed.
• 1920 July 1
  Section 107 of the amended Indian Act received royal assent: “qualified” Natives could be forced to accept enfranchisement. Repealed 1922
• 1920 July 10
  Federal political: Borden resigns and Arthur Meagan becomes the Unionist prime minister of Canada.
• 1920 July 10
  Federal political: Honourable Sir J.A. Lougheed appointed Minister of the Interior and superintendent-general of Indian Affairs.
• 1920 July 13
  Lethbridge, AB: “The SkyBoes” put on a demonstration or aerial daring-do.
• 1920 Aug. 2
  Sentinel, AB: Geo. Arkoff, Ausby Auloff and Tom Bassoff hold-up CPR train No. 63.
• 1920 Aug. 7
  Bellevue, AB: Geo. Arkoff and Tom Bassoff cornered in the Boston Café by Alberta Provincial Police constables Jas. Frewin and F.W.E. Bailey, and RCMP Constable Ernest Usher. Bailey, Arkoff and Usher killed.
• 1920 Aug. 11
  Pincher Station, AB: Tom Bassoff captured in the CPR railyards.
• 1920 Aug. 13
  B.C.: Consolidated Mining and Smelting announces that D.W. Diamond has perfected a floatation method of separating ores.
• 1920 Aug. 28
  Lethbridge, AB: Capt. John Ender Palmer and Lt. Harry Fitzsimmons obtain licence #35 from the Department of Transportation for their Lethbridge Aircraft Company, Limited.
• 1920 Sep. 13
  AB: Provincial Irrigation Council authorizes Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District to offer $5.4 million in debentures to finance infrastructure construction.
• 1920 Sep. 15
  Lethbridge, AB: Capt. John Ender Palmer awarded Commercial Pilot Certificate #64.
• 1920 Oct. 7
  Princeton, BC: Kettle Valley Railway opens its spur to Copper Mountain.
• 1920 Oct. 10
  Federal political: Honourable J.D. Reid appointed Minister of Railways and Canals.
• 1920 Oct. 19
  B.C.: West Kootenay Power and Light Company connects Copper Mountain to its grid.
• 1920 December
  B.C.: Bull River Hydro Electric Power Company liquidated.
• 1920 Dec. 1
  B.C. election: John Oliver and Liberals re-elected.
• 1920 Dec. 9
  Canada Copper Company quits mining on Copper Mountain and concentrating at Allenby.
• 1920 Dec. 21
  Princeton, BC: St. Paul’s Anglican opens.
• 1920 Dec. 22
  Lethbridge, AB: Tom Bassoff hanged for the murder of APP Constable F.W.E. Bailey in Bellevue, AB, on August 7.
• 1920 Dec. 23
  Princeton, BC: Princeton Coal and Land Company’s tipple burns.
• 1920 Dec. 24
  B.C. political: W.C. Nichol commissioned as the lieutenant-governor.
• 1921
  Crop Failure on southern Prairies.
• 1921
  B.C.: Province switches to driving on the right hand side of the road.
• 1921
  Oliver, BC: Harry Fairweather opens the Oliver Hotel.
• 1921
  Kootenay Lake, BC: Boswell Memorial Hall completed.
• 1921
  Blairmore, AB: West Canadaian Collieries completes its Greenhill Hotel.
• 1921
  B.C.: McIntyre—”Intake”—Dam completed on Okanagan River near Oliver.
• 1921
  William Adolph Baillie-Grohman dies.
• 1921
  Bellevue, AB: Fred Wonstenholme completes the Bellevue Inn for West Canadian Collieries.
• 1921
  Bridesville, BC: Sawmill begins production.
• 1921
  Phœnix Mountain, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting shuts down the Emma mine.
• 1921
  Moyie, BC: Original concentrator at the St. Eugene mine burns.
• 1921
  AB: Dept. of Public Works completes grading proto-Crowsnest Highway around Crowsnest Lake.
• 1921
  AB: Lethbridge Coal Company laid two miles of three-foot-gauged trackage to the CNL. Ripped out around 1925 when mine shut down.
• 1921
  AB political: Special Lethbridge Northern Act passed guaranteeing both principal and interest on LNID debentures.
• 1921
  Kootenay Lake, BC: Canadian Metals Company abandons the Bluebell mine.
• 1921
  Nelson, BC: City absorbs the district of Fairview.
• 1921
  B.C.: Corbin Coal and Coke ceased open-pit operations at the “Big Showing” in the Michel Creek valley.
• 1921
  Christina Lake, BC: CPR opens up Fife Lime Quarry No. 2.
• 1921
  Coleman, AB: V.C. Dunning begins publishing The Coleman Journal.
• 1921
  Yahk, BC: Wild Fire in the local watershed.
• 1921
  Blairmore, AB: “West End School” built.
• 1921
  Northport, WA: Hercules Mining Company closes forever the smelter.
• 1921
  Moyie, BC: Porto Rico Lumber Company abandons the area for upper Salmo valley.
• 1921
  Cranbrook, BC: Cranbrook Sash and Door Company opens new mill.
• 1921
  Southern Alberta: crop failure.
• 1921 Jan. 4
  Bellevue, AB: big fire downtown.
• 1921 April
  Lethbridge, AB: Two of the four remaining abandoned brothels on The Point burned.
• 1921 May
  B.C.: Boswell Farmers Institute registered under the Societies Act.
• 1921 May 1
  Oliver, BC: Post Office opens.
• 1921 May 15
  Victoria, BC: William Fernie dead.
• 1921 May 24
  Keremeos, BC: Victory Hall in Keremeos dedicated.
• 1921 June
  Coalmont, BC: Coalmont Collieries, Limited, completes aerial tramway from mine to railway.
• 1921 June
  Lethbridge, AB: One of the two remaining abandoned brothels on The Point burned.
• 1921 June 7
  Bellevue, AB: Bellevue Collieries liquidated and assets transferred to Mohawk Bituminous Collieries.
• 1921 June 15
  B.C.: Province shelves Prohibition. First government liquor board stores open.
• 1921 June 16
  Commerce, AB: Ground-breaking ceremony for the Main—”Peigan”—Canal of the Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District (LNID).
• 1921 June 21 (2?)
  AB: LNID awards main construction contracts to Grant, Smith & Co., and McDonnell Ltd.
• 1921 June 25
  Lethbridge, AB: Federal Coals Limited powerhouse burns down.
• 1921 July
  Phœnix, BC: CPR begins removing its spur in from the Columbia and Western trackage.
• 1921 July
  Blairmore, AB: The congregations of the Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians in Blairmore, AB, unite under the roof of what was formerly Blairmore Baptist Church: W.T. Young, minister.
• 1921 July 1
  Rossland, BC: Last Red Mountain Railway train leaves. Crews begin removing tracks on May 8, 1922.
• 1921 July 18
  AB election: Herbert Greenfield’s United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) party to power in Alberta.
• 1921 Nov. 10
  Lethbridge, AB: The ward of the Taylor stake transformed into an independent stake of the Mormon Church.
• 1921 Dec. 1
  B.C.: The Great Northern surrenders its Princeton agency to the Kettle Valley Railway.
• 1921 Dec. 6
  Federal election: William Lyon Mackenzie King and Liberals to power as a minority government.
• 1921 Dec. 24
  Lethbridge, AB: Columbia Macaroni factory mauled by fire.
• 1921 Dec. 29
  Federal political: Honourable Charles Stewart appointed Minister of the Interior and superintendent-general of Indian Affairs. Honourable W.C. Kennedy appointed Minister of Railways and Canals.