Period 1922 – 1930

Period 1922 – 1930 for South-western Canada

• 1922
  Lynch Creek, BC: Western Pine Company mill burns.
• 1922
  Princeton, BC: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway pulls steel from B.C. Cement plant spur.
• 1922
  Oliver, BC: What is now the United Church raised.
• 1922
  “Royal City,” AB: Royal Collieries seals the Riverview mine.
• 1922
  AB & BC: United Mine Wokers of America strikes District 18 mines.
• 1922
  Kikomun doab, BC: Jaffray Farmers’ Institute formed.
• 1922
  Claresholm, AB: Wing added to the School of Agriculture to accommodate female students.
• 1922
  Cascade, BC: Stewart-Calvert Company ceases operations at the nearby Mastadon group.
• 1922
  Boswell, BC: Fruit packing shed opened.
• 1922
  Kimberley, BC: CM&S opens a school and Warren Hall at “Top Mine.”
• 1922
  Waldo, BC: Ross-Saskatoon Lumber bankrupt and ceases operations. (? 1923)
• 1922
  “East Kootenay Town,” BC: East Kootenay Lumber Co. begins to wind down operations at Jaffray.
• 1922
  Caithness, BC: Jewell school closed.
• 1922
  Kimberley, BC: Roman Catholic congregation raises a church.
• 1922
  Lethbridge, AB: City governance committee expanded from three advisory commissioners to six.
• 1922
  B.C.: The Department of Public Works builds road along the eastern shore of Moyie Lake.
• 1922
  East Kootenay Power Company buys the generation rights to the Elk River falls.
• 1922 Jan. 24
  Lethbridge, AB: Carnegie Library opened in Galt Park. Hazel Bletcher, chief.
• 1922 Mar. 29 (28?)
  British Columbia and Alberta Power Company (BC&A) incorporates the East Kootenay Power and Light Company: president, A.E. Appleyard; general manager, Art.B. Sanborn; general superintendent, Fred.D. Emory.
• 1922 Apr. 1
  Lethbridge, AB: UMWA members out till August 24th.
• 1922 May 7
  B.C.: East Kootenay Power Company began transmitting power from the “Aberfeldie” plant on the Bull River to Fernie.
• 1922 May 8
  Rossland, BC: Crews begin removing Red Mountain Railway tracks.
• 1922 Apr. 1
  United Mine Workers of America members walk out in the Crowsnest Pass mines. Until August 24th.
• 1922 June 2
  Bull River, BC: East Kootenay Power and Light Company began transmitting power from its Bull River generating station nearby, to Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass communities.
• 1922 June 25
  Minot, ND: The Lethbridge Aircraft Company’s “Jenny” JN-4 “Canuck,” G-ABX, wrecked.
• 1922 Aug. 1
  Blakeburn, BC: The Post Office opens a bureau.
• 1922 Aug. 22
  Princeton, BC: Princeton Coal and Land Company, Limited, opens up its No. 2 mine.
• 1922 Aug. 24
  WA: American Smelting and Refining Company buys the Northport smelter for scrap.
• 1922 Sep. 6
  Bank of Montreal and Merchants’ Bank amalgamate.
• 1922 Sep. 21
  Coleman, AB: Filumena “Florence” Lassandro and Emilio Picariello allegedly kill A.P.P Officer Stephen Oldacres Lawson.
• 1922 Oct. 4
  Federal economic: The board of the Grand Trunk Railway resigns and Canadian National Railways board constituted.
• 1922 Oct. 10
  Federal economic: Sir Henry Worth Thornton appointed chairman of the Board and President of the CNR.
• 1922 Oct. 29 (19?)
  AB: Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District project declared “complete.”
• 1922 Oct. 31
  B.C.: British Columbia Historical Assoc. organized. Registered under the Societies Act, March 1927.
• 1922 Nov. 21
  Bellevue, AB: major fire downtown
• 1922 Nov. 29
  Coleman, AB: big fire downtown.
• 1922 Dec. 2
  Edmonton, AB: Picariello and Lassandro convicted of the murder of Constable Lawson.
• 1923
  CP’s B.C. Lake & River Service scraps Kokanee.
• 1923
  Cawston, BC: Cawston Canning Company reorganized.
• 1923
  Haynes, BC: The Kettle Valley Railway arrives at this community south of Oliver.
• 1923
  Fairview, BC: Fairview Mining Company takes over operation of the Susie group from the Federal Mining Company.
• 1923
  B.C.: Province outlaws narrow-gauged railways.
• 1923
  Coalhurst, AB: McDonald’s Grocery & Dry Goods burns.
• 1923
  “Royal City,” AB: Fred Lund and partners open the Royal View—”Swedes'”—mine.
• 1923
  Kimberley, BC: MacDougall Hospital built.
• 1923
  Blairmore, AB: E.J. Pozzi completes the Union Bank Building.
• 1923
  AB: P. Burns Ranches Ltd. acquires the “Bar U” ranch.
• 1923
  AB & SK: CPR connects end of railroad at Manyberries, AB, to the end of steel at Governlock, SK.
• 1923
  Coal Mountain, BC: Corbin Coal and Coke opens No. 6 underground.
• 1923
  Sand Creek, BC: School opens.
• 1923
  AB & BC: United Mine Wokers of America strikes District 18 mines.
• 1923
  Jaffray, BC: Jaffray House Hotel burned down. Replaced.
• 1923
  Sentinel, AB: Contractors complete the railbed into Spokane and Alberta Coal and Coke property at Tent Mountain.
• 1923
  Lethbridge, AB: CPR adds the final wedge of six stalls to its roundhouse.
• 1923
  Lethbridge, AB: Artic Oil refinery begins production.
• 1923
  Jaffray, BC: East Kootenay Lumber Company mill shut down.
• 1923
  AB: The Pincher Creek Cöoperative Association forms the Producers’ Storage Company to build warehouses at Brocket and Pincher Station.
• 1923
  AB: “Bumper” crop harvested in the south-west.
• 1923 Jan. 26
  Vancouver, BC: Captain Francis Patrick Armstrong of upper Kootenay and Columbia rivers fame dies.
• 1923 Jan. 30
  Federal political: Grand Trunk Railway amalgamated with Canadian National Railways.
• 1923 April
  Lethbridge, AB: The old N-WMP barracks on the Police Reserve downtown burns.
• 1923 Apr. 1
  Federal political: Cortlandt Starnes appointed seventh Commissioner of the RCMP (to July 31, 1931).
• 1923 Apr. 28
  Federal political: Right Honourable G.P. Graham appointed Minister of Railways and Canals.
• 1923 May 1
  AB: Main gates raised allowing the Oldman River’s waters into the LNID’s main canal.
• 1923 May 2
  Fort Saskatchewan, AB: 5:10a.m. and 5:51a.m.: Emilio Picariello and Filumena (Florence) Lassandro executed by hanging in provincial gaol.
• 1923 May 21
  AB & BC: Floods inundate the Crowsnest Pass region.
• 1923 May 21
  Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting buys Copper Mountain and Allenby, BC, concentrator through its Allenby Copper Company, Limited.
• 1923 May 25
  Christina Lake, BC: Sunday: 8 drowned in a boating accident.
• 1923 May 31
  AB & BC: Crest of floods in the Crowsnest Pass. Headgates of the LNID diversion canal destroyed.
• 1923 June 30
  Federal political: An Act Respecting Chinese Immigration defines types of Chinese persons particularly excluded from Canada.
• 1923 Summer
  Crowsnest Pass, AB: Big wild fires destroy much of Pelletier’s timber.
• 1923 July
  Blairmore, AB: Courthouse completed.
• 1923 July 1
  Federal political: The Chinese Immigration Act (Chinese Exclusion Act), was enacted in Ottawa.
• 1923 August
  The $800,000 failure of the Home Bank wiped out the life savings of hundreds of Crowsnest Pass families.
• 1923 Aug. 24
  Friday.
• 1923 Aug. 24
  Kimberley, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting opens its new Concentrator plant at Chapman Camp nearby.
• 1923 September
  The Canyon City Lumber Company mill of C.O. Rodgers and D.W. Briggs burns.
• 1923 Sep. 11
  Jaffray, BC: Postal bureau moved out of the East Kootenay Lumber offices in “East Kootenay Town” and into Rosen’s General store.
• 1923 Autumn
  The Southern Alberta Wheat Pool and Produce Company formed to deal with that season’s bumber grain crop.
• 1923 Nov. 5
  AB: The electorate votes to end prohibition.
• 1923 December
  B.C.: Provincial Party of British Columbia organized under Major-General A.D. McRae.
• 1923 Dec. 9
  Montréal, PQ: Sir (since 1901) Thomas George Shaughnessy dies. (Oct. 6, 1853)
• 1924
  Princeton, BC: Tulameen Valley Coal Company begins operations.
• 1924
  B.C.: Organization of highways into “routes.”
• 1924
  Blairmore, AB: Radio broadcasts first heard in area.
• 1924
  Saskatchewan Wheat Pool organized.
• 1924
  AB & BC: United Mine Wokers of America strikes District 18 mines.
• 1924
  Baynes Lake, BC: Adolph Lumber winds up operations.
• 1924
  Galloway, BC: Galloway Lumber Co. yards innundated when the Daley dam fails.
• 1924
  Waldo, BC: Suspension bridge over Kootenay River replaced by Howe truss spans.
• 1924
  East Kootenays, BC: “Hurricane” rips through the valley. Elko damaged.
• 1924
  Manitoba Pool organized.
• 1924
  Kimberley, BC: The Porcupine Goldfields Development and Finance Company of London assumes a five year lease on the North Star property.
• 1924
  Kimberley, BC: Orpheum Theatre opens.
• 1924
  Kimberley, BC: Kimberley Golf Club opens.
• 1924
  Macleod, AB: The Town forced into bankruptcy.
• 1924
  Blairmore, AB: West Canadian Collieries builds a concrete tipple for the Greenhill mine.
• 1924
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt No. 3 mine shut down.
• 1924
  Lethbridge, AB: Chinese Freemasons erect a building in “Chinatown.”
• 1924
  Commerce, AB: Chinook Coal Company closes its mine.
• 1924
  AB: Seven month-long miners’ strike in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass mines and Galt mines.
• 1924
  Cascade, BC: Revelstoke Lumber Company shuts down its Forest Mills of B.C. sawmill. Dismantled two years later.
• 1924
  Riondel, BC: S.S. Fowler and B.L. Eastman begin dewatering the Bluebell with Consolidated Mining and Smelting’s money.
• 1924
  The Western Coal Operators locked out their miners for nine months in a struggle with the One Big Union.
• 1924
  B.C.: Corbin Coal and Coke reorganized as Corbin Coals, Limited.
• 1924
  British North American Mining Corporation of Vancouver leased and bonded the Silver Horn group at Cawston, BC.
• 1924
  Oliver, BC: B.C. Provincial Police offices completed.
• 1924
  Bellevue, AB: Maple Leaf School opened in the suburb of Maple Leaf.
• 1924
  Kimberley, BC: Porcupine Goldfields Development and Finance Company of London, England, assumed a five-year lease on the North Star mine.
• 1924 January
  Creston, BC: C.O. Rodgers starts up the Creston Sawmill.
• 1924 Jan. 1
  Blairmore, AB: Indoor Arena opened.
• 1924 Jan. 1
  Bellevue, AB: Indoor Arena opened.
• 1924 Jan. 26
  Blairmore, AB: Having been captured in Butte, MT, Ausby Auloff convicted of robbery and sentanced to seven years in Prince Albert, SK, federal penitentiary. Dies therein on April 5th, 1926.
• 1924 February
  Fernie, BC: White Spruce Lumber Company mill shuts down.
• 1924 Feb. 22
  Macleod, AB: Long-distance telephone connection established from Toronto.
• 1924 Mar. 4
  Yahk, BC: Much of commercial district burns.
• 1924 Mar. 10 (14?)
  Elko, BC: East Kootenay Power begins generating in its Elko plant.
• 1924 Mar. 13
  Bull River, BC: CPR’s Tie and Timber Branch planer mill burns.
• 1924 Mar. 14
  B.C.: East Kootenay Power & Light Company connects its Elko plant to its power grid.
• 1924 Mar. 27
  B.C.: New Dominion Copper Company, Limited, stricken from the Register of Companies.
• 1924 April
  Montreal and Boston Copper Company, Limited, last Gazetted and subsequently struck from the Register of Joint-Stock companies.
• 1924 Apr. 12
  AB: The lieutenant-governor assents to “An Act to Provide for Government Control and Sale of Alcoholic Liquors” thus ending prohibition in Alberta.
• 1924 Apr. 15
  SK: Prohibition ends.
• 1924 May
  Judge J.A. (John) Forin finds against Consolidated Mining and Smelting’s Trail smelter in a suit arising from for damaged crops. CM&S obtains a smoke-damage easement for local lands, limiting their liability for continuing property damage.
• 1924 May 5 (12?)
  Robert Leslie Thomas Galbraith dies.
• 1924 May 14
  Creston, BC: Community incorporated as a Village.
• 1924 June 15
  Lethbridge, AB: Standard J-1 registered to Fitzsimmons’ and Palmer’s Southern Albeta Airlines as G-CAEO.
• 1924 June 20
  B.C. political: John Oliver and Liberals re-elected.
• 1924 July 1
  B.C.: The Kettle Valley Railway’s provincial tax exemption ends.
• 1924 July 1
  Macleod, AB: Begins a three-day celebration of Town’s Golden Jubilee.
• 1924 August
  B.C.: Princeton Coal and Land Company, Limited, reorganized as Princeton-B.C. Colliery Company Limited.
• 1924 Aug. 3
  Lethbridge, AB: Southern Alberta Airlines inaugurate Lethbridge to Waterton Park sightseeing flights.
• 1924 Aug. 13
  Pincher Creek, AB: Jock Palmer wrecks Southern Alberta Airline’s Standard J-1 on his way back to Lethbridge from a sight-seeing flight to Waterton Park.
• 1924 Oct. 20
  Corbin, BC: New washery at Corbin Coals’ mines begins operations.
• 1924 Oct. 29
  B.C.: Nine passengers, including Peter “The Lordly” Verigin, killed in bomb blast at 00:55 aboard car 1586 of the Kootenay Express, No. 11 westbound, down Farron Hill.
• 1924 Dec. 15
  B.C.: The Big Blizzard paralyses the south-east.
• 1925
  Vancouver, BC: Horn Silver Mining Corporation organized to mine the Silver Horn group near Cawston.
• 1925
  Oliver, BC: Fairweather brothers buy the federal government’s sawmill nearby.
• 1925
  Mine Workers Union of Canada absorbs one by one the local miners’ unions in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass area.
• 1925
  AB: Southern Alberta Airlines organized with “Jock” Palmer as chief pilot.
• 1925
  Raymond, AB: Utah-Idaho Sugar Company begin operations in its new plant.
• 1925
  B.C.: Associated Mining and Milling Company bought the Copper Canyon group near Camp McKinney.
• 1925
  “Royal City,” AB: The New Barnes Coal Company shuts down its coal mine.
• 1925
  “Royal City,” AB: Lethbridge Gem coal mine opened.
• 1925
  “Royal City,” AB: J.C. Chester, the former manager of the Riverview, acquires the property and opens the Chester into the measures.
• 1925
  The Mine Workers Union of Canada extends its communistic influence into the Crowsnest Pass.
• 1925
  B.C.: Policy adopted by the province to encourage the settlement of “Creston flats.”
• 1925
  Coleman, AB: “West Ward School” renamed “Cameron” School.
• 1925
  I.R. 148, AB: Kainai Nation discontinues the Blood Indian Stampede as it interferred with the Medicine Lodge ceremony.
• 1925
  AB: CPR buys Diamond City Railway’s line from Kipp to Diamond City.
• 1925
  Kimberley, BC: High School built.
• 1925
  Kimberley, BC: Kootenay Telephone Lines Company begins offering limited ‘phone service.
• 1925
  Jaffray, BC: CP removes 2-storey station, replacing it with a “portable,”
• 1925
  Coleman, AB: Institutional Church renamed “St. Paul’s United.”
• 1925
  Marysville, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting buys out the Keers’ dairying operation and expand it greatly.
• 1925
  Wynndel, BC: Porcupine Goldfields Development and Finance Company leased the nearby Alice properties.
• 1925
  B.C.: Consolidated M&S acquires the Hunter V group at Ymir from the B.C. Standard Mining Company.
• 1925
  Moyie, BC: Consolidated M&S builds a new mill to concentrate the St. Eugene tailings. Closed 1929.
• 1925 Jan. 9
  Lethbridge, AB: First commercial radio broadcast.
• 1925 Jan. 20
  Otter Lake, BC: Last Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway ice train leaves.
• 1925 May 30
  AB: Lethbridge Aircraft Company, Limited, struck from the Provincial Register of Companies.
• 1925 June 10
  Canada: The Methodist Church of Canada, the Congregational Union of Canada, and 70% of the Presbyterian Church of Canada form the United Church of Canada.
• 1925 June 16
  B.C.: McCulloch retires as General Superintendent of the Kettle Valley Railway.
• 1925 July 31
  Hanbury, BC: Postal bureau closed.
• 1925 Aug. 1
  B.C.: Minister of Lands, T.D. Patullo, officially opens West Kootenay Power’s modified and refurbished Lower Bonnington dam and powerhouse.
• 1925 Aug. 20
  Princeton, BC: The Kettle Valley Railway reopens its Copper Mountain spur nearby.
• 1925 Aug. 24
  B.C.: Granby Mining and Smelting sending concentrate from Allenby to Trail & Tacoma, WA.
• 1925 Sep. 1
  Canada: Union Bank of Canada and Royal Bank amalgamate.
• 1925 Sep. 11 (12th?)
  B.C.: Canadian National drives the last spike on its Vernon to Kelowna line, 33.5 miles.
• 1925 Sep. 14
  B.C.: Canadian National opens its “Okanagan Branch” for service.
• 1925 Oct. 20
  Creston, BC: Tuesday, John Ward and accomplice rob the local branch of the Imperial Bank of Canada.
• 1925 Oct. 29
  Election, federal: Prime Minister W.L.M. King engineers the return to power of the federal Liberals as a minority government with Progressives holding balance of power.
• 1925 Oct. 29
  AB political: Dr. William Egbert appointed lieutenant-governor (to May 5th, 1931).
• 1925 November
  Hosmer, BC: Hosmer Hotel burns.
• 1925 Nov. 1
  B.C.: John Ward sentenced to eight years and 20 lashes for his part in the bank robbery in Creston, B.C.
• 1925 Nov. 15
  Kimberley, BC: All Saints Anglican dedicated.
• 1925 Nov. 23
  J.E. Brownlee succeeds Greenfield as UFA premier of Alberta.
• 1925 Nov. 28
  Western Coal Operators Association disbands.
• 1925 December
  Elko, BC: Fire in downtown.
• 1925 Dec. 10
  Bull River, BC: Tourist Hotel burns.
• 1926
  Kitchener, BC: The first of the pair of lumber mills close.
• 1926
  B.C.: Imperial group of mines on the Kettle River above Rock Creek close.
• 1926
  B.C.: Yankee Girl, Limited, formed to acquire the Yankee Girl group near Ymir.
• 1926
  Blairmore, AB: Adolph Mutz gets back into the local coal business by buying into the Sunburst coal Co.
• 1926
  B.C.: Cascade Highway completed through the Rossland Range from Christina Lake to Rossland, BC.
• 1926
  B.C.: Big Fire in upper Salmo valley.
• 1926
  Chapman Camp, BC: School opened.
• 1926
  Caithness, BC: Jewell Lumber Co. ceases operations.
• 1926
  I.R. 147A, AB: Anglican denomination replaces the old Victoria Jubilee Home with St. Cyprian’s Residential School near Brocket on the Piikani Reserve.
• 1926
  I.R. 148A, AB: Roman Catholics complete new St. Mary’s Residential School near Cardston.
• 1926
  I.R. 148A, AB: New hospital built for the Kainai near Cardston. Staffed by the Grey Nuns.
• 1926
  Passburg, AB Bank of Montreal assumes direct ownership of the remanins of Leitch Collieries and scraps the site.
• 1926
  Hillcrest, AB: J.E. Upton forms the Hillcrest Orchestra, the forerunner of the modern Crowsnest Pass Symphony.
• 1926
  Coleman, AB: International Coal & Coke completes new steel tipple.
• 1926
  I.R. 148A, AB: The CPR builds rail line across the Kainai Reserve between Cardston and Glenwood(ville).
• 1926
  Pincher Creek, AB: Hutterites establish their Pincher Creek Colony with settlers from Montana.
• 1926
  Coleman, AB: The new Grand Union Hotel—the 1905 original having been levelled in 1924—opens.
• 1926
  Sanca, BC: United Lode Mining Company establishes the Iolanthe mine.
• 1926
  Lethbridge, AB: John K. Hamilton quits the old McNab mine.
• 1926
  Lethbridge, AB: Fritz Sick’s “House of Lethbridge” introduces Old Style Pilsner.
• 1926
  Lethbridge, AB: The Leong family buys the Baan An Tong building.
• 1926
  B.C.: M.L. Bruce Lumber Company establishes a 100-man camp and built a flume in the Akokli (Goat) Creek valley.
• 1926
  B.C.: GN abandoned the Elko–Michel reach of the Crows Nest Southern and ran into Fernie on CP steel.
• 1926
  Austin Corbin II gains the presidency of Corbin Coals, Ltd.
• 1926 Winter
  B.C.: Consolidated Mining and Smelting leases Emil Voigt’s properties on Copper Mountain.
• 1926 Jan. 21
  BC political: R.R. Bruce commissioned as the lieutenant-governor of B.C.
• 1926 Feb. 15
  B.C.: Canadian National Railways commences passenger service on branch between Kamloops and Kelowna.
• 1926 Feb. 22
  Hillcrest, AB: St. Theresa’s RC Church dedicated. Closed and demolished in 1964.
• 1926 Mar. 9
  Coleman, AB: Board of Trade organized. Alex Morrison, president.
• 1926 Apr. 5
  Prince Albert, SK: Ausby Auloff dies in the penitentiary.
• 1926 April
  Lethbridge, AB: Jock Palmer’s Radio station, CJOC, obtains a broadcasting licence.
• 1926 Apr. 30
  B.C.: Princeton-B.C. Colliery Company, Limited, falls into receivership.
• 1926 May 26
  B.C.: Tulameen Gold and Platinum Recovery Company, Limited, formed in Vancouver to mine near Princeton.
• 1926 June
  Cawston, BC: Horn Silver Mining Corporation begins operation of its concentration plant nearby.
• 1926 June 20
  Okanagan Valley, BC: CNR begins lake service between Kelowna and Penticton with the M.V. Pentowna
• 1926 June 28
  Election, AB: Brownlee’s UFA returned to power in Edmonton.
• 1926 June 28
  Federal political: Viscount Byng asks Arthur Meigan to form Conservative government.
• 1926 July 3
  Federal political: Vote of non-confidence ushers Meigan’s government out.
• 1926 July 26
  AB: The council of the Town of Coleman approves sale of land at Sentinel, AB, to East Kootenay Power & Light for construction of a coal-fired electricity generating plant.
• 1926 Aug. 23
  Cardston, AB: Mormon temple dedicated.
• 1926 Sep. 14
  Election, federal: W.L.M. King leads Liberals to power in Ottawa.
• 1926 Sep. 19
  Hillcrest, AB: two die in an explosion in the Hillcrest mine.
• 1926 Oct. 1
  B.C.: Granby Consolidated merges Allenby Copper Company into its corporate fabric.
• 1926 Oct. 6
  Coleman, AB: No. 9, the first Royal Canadian Legion Branch in Alberta, established.
• 1926 Nov. 19
  Commonwealth adopts the Balfour Report: Dominions ruled autonomous and politically equal to Britain.
• 1926 Nov. 20
  Burmis, AB: St. Stanislas Kotska’s Church dedicated. Closed and demolished in 1970.
• 1926 Nov. 23
  Coleman, AB: Ten die in the McGillivray Coal and Coke mine.
• 1926 Dec. 10
  Chapman Camp, BC: Oughtred Hall opened.
• 1927
  BC political: Defunct Railway Companies Dissolution Act of 1927.
• 1927
  B.C.: South Okanagan Land Project completes main irrigation canal to Osoyoos.
• 1927
  Erie, BC: Both the Second Relief group and the Arlington group again back into production nearby.
• 1927
  B.C.: Consolidated Mining and Smelting buys the HB Mine near Salmo as a reserve.
• 1927
  B.C.: J.J. Warren appointed president of West Kootenay Power.
• 1927
  Federal political: The Department of Indian Affairs establishes a Medical Branch: Dr. E.L. Stove, director.
• 1927
  Bellevue, AB: West Canadian Collieries modernizes its Bellevue mine.
• 1927
  Cowley, AB: St. Joseph’s RC Church completed.
• 1927
  Kimberley, BC: MacDougall Hospital expanded.
• 1927
  AB: The Province takes over administration of the Lethbridge Northern Irrigation District.
• 1927
  AB: St. Mary’s River Railway extended from Cardston to Glenwood, and from Kimball to Fareham (“Whiskey Gap” after 1931).
• 1927
  Federal political: Indian Act amended to prohibit any Band from engaging legal counsel in their dealings with the DIA.
• 1927
  Princeton, BC: Lynden Coal Mines, Limited, organized and opens a mine nearby.
• 1927
  B.C.: Associated Mining and Milling Company acquires the Valparaiso group in the Sheep Creek valley.
• 1927
  Ymir, BC: Yankee Girl, Limited, leases the Yankee Girl group to Porcupine Goldfields Development and Finance Company for a year.
• 1927
  Coleman, AB: Ukrainian Labor Temple completed.
• 1927
  B.C.: Province begins creating a road along the east shore of Kootenay Lake north from Kuskonook, BC.
• 1927
  B.C.: New Auto-route up the Fraser River opened.
• 1927
  Kimberley, BC: CM&S begins planting “Cominco Gardens.”
• 1927
  Kimberley, BC: Roman Catholic congregation raises Sacred Heart Church.
• 1927
  Kimberley, BC: Presbyterian congregation buys former Catholic church.
• 1927
  Federal political: DIA established a Medical Branch under Dr. E.L. Stove.
• 1927
  Sentinel, AB: East Kootenay Power & Light brings its coal-fired generating plant on stream.
• 1927
  B.C.: Horn Silver Mining receives Dominion charter as Big Horn Mines, Limited.
• 1927
  B.C.: The Moyie Mining Syndicate shuts down operations at the Aurora on BC’s Moyie Lake.
• 1927
  Wycliffe, BC: Otis Staples Lumber Company, operators of the St. Mary and Cherry Creek Railway, shut down operations.
• 1927
  Peter P. “the Purger” Verigin, son of “the Lordly,” arrives in Canada.
• 1927
  The South African-financed Hecla Mining Company of Wallace, Idaho, bonds the Union group and the Maple Leaf properties north of Grand Forks, BC. Mill and accommodations constructed by 1929.
• 1927
  Trail, BC: CP builds new station in downtown.
• 1927
  Jaffray, BC: Andrew Rosen killed.
• 1927
  Chapman Camp, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting concentrator begins to recover cadmium-rich ore.
• 1927
  Bull River, BC: Tourist Hotel re-built.
• 1927
  Kimberley, BC: Porcupine Goldfields Development and Finance Company suspends work on the Stemwinder.
• 1927
  Market prices for Lead and Zinc slip.
• 1927 Jan 21
  Rossland, BC: Fire on Columbia Avenue.
• 1927 Mar. 7
  The Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Transportation Company dissolved and removed from the Registry of Companies.
• 1927 April
  AB: C.S. Donaldon acquires two sections in Pyami Coulee and begins to dig a mine.
• 1927 Aug. 17
  B.C.: Premier Oliver dies.
• 1927 Aug. 19
  Shaughnessy, AB: C.S. Donaldson breaks ground on Silkstone Collieries, better know as the Standard mine.
• 1927 Aug. 20
  B.C. political: John Duncan MacLean selected as premier.
• 1927 Aug. 22
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Commercial Airways of Charles B. Elliott and John Ender Palmer registers standard J-1 as C-CAHU.
• 1927 Sep. 5
  Nelson, BC: Capital Theatre, built in 1924 as the Central Garage and renovated in Atr Deco style by A.H. Green, opens.
• 1927 Sep. 23
  Lethbridge, AB: City obtains Customs Airharbour Licence.
• 1927 Oct. 1
  Corbin, BC: Two killed by a shot-ignited gas blast in Corbin Coal’s No. 6 mine.
• 1927 Oct. 7
  Lethbridge, AB: Plebicite OKs a revamping of the City’s administration.
• 1927 Dec. 5
  AB: Wide-spread blizzard kills several in the south.
• 1927 Dec. 27
  Blairmore, AB: Fire destroys the Alberta Gov’t Telephones’ building.
• 1928
  Copper 14.5¢/lb., Silver 58¢/oz., Gold $20/oz., Lead $21/ton, Zinc $25.3/ton, Cadmium 62.6¢/lb.
• 1928
  Salmo, BC: Kootenay Shingle Company ceases operations.
• 1928
  Saskatchewan Provincial Police disbanded.
• 1928
  Kimberley, BC: McKim High School built.
• 1928
  Beasley, BC: Queen Victoria Consolidated Mines, Limited, of Montreal, acquired the Queen Victoria property along with 21 others.
• 1928
  Princeton, BC: Pleasant Valley Coal Mining Company, Limited, organized and opens a mine nearby.
• 1928
  Grand Forks, BC: Federal Department of Transportation builds airfield.
• 1928
  GN begins running a gas-electric railcar service, the “Galloping Goose,” along the Crows Nest Southern between Rexford, MT, and Fernie, BC.
• 1928
  Sanca, BC: Sanca Mines, Limited, formed to take over the Valparaiso group and the Iolanthe.
• 1928
  Corbin, BC: Road from Michel built in.
• 1928
  Kikomun doab, BC: CP pulls its Waldo Subdivision.
• 1928
  Coalhurst, AB: Ellison Milling and Elevator Company builds a 40,000-bushel grain elevator. Added a 42,000-bu. annex around 1943.
• 1928
  Lethbridge, AB: H. R. Carson buys control of CJOC and installs its studio in the penthouse of the Marquis Hotel.
• 1928
  Lethbridge, AB: Bowman High School convertd to an elementary.
• 1928
  Lethbridge, AB: St. Augustine’s Church begun.
• 1928
  Shaughnessy, AB: Silkstone Collieries transferred to Cadillac Coal Company.
• 1928
  “Royal City,” AB: J.C. Chester sells the Chester but stays on as manager.
• 1928
  AB: Sections of the “Red Route” gravelled.
• 1928
  Frank, AB: the long-abandoned Rocky Mountains Sanatorium building demolished.
• 1928
  Ymir, BC: Yankee Girl Consolidated Mines, Limited, takes over Yankee Girl group.
• 1928
  Princeton, BC.: Construction of courthouse begins.
• 1928
  Yahk, BC: Only church to be built in community completed: R.C.
• 1928
  B.C.: CNP Lumber shut down operations in the Little Bull watershed.
• 1928
  Chapman Camp, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting concentrator begins to recover bismuth-rich ore.
• 1928 Mar. 7
  Nelson, BC: CPR launches Granthall (164 tons). Retired 1958.
• 1928 Mar. 11
  Lethbridge, AB: Federal Coals Limited shuts down its No. 2 mine, the erstwhile Pioneer.
• 1928 Mar. 13
  Calgary, AB: Emil Sick forms Purple Label Airline Limited. Absorbed by Great Western Airways, Limited, by 1928 end.
• 1928 Mar. 21
  AB: 18 Geo. V 1928 Chapter 75 receives assent modifying Lethbridge’s charter, implementing an elected seven-councillor administration which then chose the mayor from among themselves.
• 1928 April
  Coalhurst, AB: North American Collieries disolved and operation of the Imperial mine transferred to Coal Producers, Ltd.
• 1928 Apr. 19
  Rosebery, BC: CPR launches Rosebery (132 tons). Re-built 1943, retired 1956.
• 1928 May 8
  B.C.: CPR’s Tie and Timber Branch shuts down its Bull River saw mill.
• 1928 May 15
  New York: Elliott Torrance Galt dies. Buried in Montréal.
• 1928 June
  Lethbridge, AB: Miners’ Memorial dedicated in Galt Park.
• 1928 June
  Calgary, AB: Great Western Airways, Limited, formed by Sick and F.R.G. McCall to absorb assets of Purple Label Airlines, including the latter’s Stinson “Detroiter.” Company begins promoting a Calgary–Lethbridge–Great Falls, MT, route.
• 1928 June 14
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Commercial Airways completes hangar at Lethbridge Airharbour.
• 1928 July
  B.C.: D.H. Wells buys Santo group on the Bull River.
• 1928 July 3
  Corbin, BC: Fire originating in the new coal drier consumes the tipple at Coal Mountain.
• 1928 July 18
  B.C. political: 17th General Election.
• 1928 Aug. 20
  B.C. political: Premier J.D. MacLean and government resign.
• 1928 Aug. 21
  B.C. political: Simon Fraser Tolmie installed as Conservative premier of B.C.
• 1928 Aug. 30
  Coal Creek, BC: Six miners dead in blow-out at mine No. 1 East.
• 1928 Oct. 25
  Bull River, BC: CP’s Tie and Timber Branch shuts down its planer mill.
• 1928 Oct. 25
  B.C.: Rossland Power Company, Limited, dissolved.
• 1928 Nov. 5
  Bank of Commerce and the Standard Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Bank of Commerce.
• 1928 Nov. 27
  Lethbridge, AB: Federal Coals Limited shuts down its No. 1 mine, the old Sheran works.
• 1928 December
  Nelson, BC: West Kootenay Power’s Plant No. 3 at the new South Slocan dam begins generating.
• 1928 Christmastime
  Coalhurst, AB: CPR removed its station from Kipp, AB., and rolls it two miles down the Crowsnest Line to Coalhurst.
• 1929
  Rossland, BC: Consolidated M&S closed the last of Rossland’s mines, Le Roi.
• 1929
  Salmo, BC: Relief-Arlington Mines, Limited, suspended work at the Arlington nearby.
• 1929
  Trail, BC: New Crown Point Hotel finished.
• 1929
  Bellevue, AB: West Canadian Collieries builds new, concrete portal for its Bellevue mine.
• 1929
  Sentinel, AB: East Kootenay Power & Light doubles the output of its coal-fired generating plant.
• 1929
  AB: George Fay and Harold Olson formed Canadian Greyhound Coaches Limited and began running a coach between Calgary and Lethbridge.
• 1929
  Blairmore, AB: Sisters of St. Martha open St. Anne’s parish convent.
• 1929
  West Princeton, BC: Till 1937, the Blue Flame (aka Lynden) operating.
• 1929
  Princeton, BC: Tulameen Valley Coal Company reorganized as Tulameen Coal Mines, Limited; erects a new tipple.
• 1929
  Balfour, BC: Hotel Kootenay Lake demolished.
• 1929
  Michel, BC: Present Michel Hotel completed.
• 1929
  Cowley, AB: Cowley Hotel burned down.
• 1929
  Middleton, BC: “Big school” completed.
• 1929
  Kimberley, BC: Sullivan Mine generally recognized as the biggest producer of lead and zinc in the World.
• 1929
  Kimberley, BC: Last of the 4 buildings of the Central School complete.
• 1929
  Kimberley, BC: Kimberley Ski Club organized. (? 1930)
• 1929
  B.C.: Wild fire in Moyie valley near the Lake.
• 1929
  Sanca, BC: Post Office establishes a bureau.
• 1929
  Macleod, AB: The RCMP surrender their erstwhile fort property to the Department of the Interior.
• 1929
  Lethbridge, AB: Sisters of St. Martha bought Maria Van Haalem’s private hospital and renamed it “St. Michael’s.”
• 1929
  Moyie, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting closes and salvages its new mill.
• 1929
  Cowley, AB: Alberta Wheat Pool builds elevator.
• 1929 January
  B.C.: S.S. Fowler and B.L. Eastman incorporate the Blue Bell Mines Limited, capitalization, $2 million.
• 1929 Jan. 2
  Mike and Maria Dumont buy the A. McDonald and Company operations at Galloway for $30,000.
• 1929 Jan. 28
  Golden, BC: 07:45hrs. Bridge spanning Surprise Creek on the CPR Mainline nearby collapses.
• 1929 Mar. 1
  Rossland, BC: Fire in Columbia Avenue.
• 1929 Mar. 25
  Coal Creek, BC: Fire discovered in a collapsed roadway in the No. 1 East mine.
• 1929 Apr. 6
  Hope, BC: incorporated as a District.
• 1929 Apr. 13
  Coal Creek, BC: Ten burned in mine explosion.
• 1929 May 1
  Lethbridge, AB: Charles B. Elliott forms Southern Alberta Air Lines, Ltd, and acquired a de Havilland “Gipsy Moth,” CF-ADJ.
• 1929 May 9
  Grand Forks, BC: Airfield at Grand Forks granted the first federal licence in B.C.
• 1929 May 31
  Coal Creek, BC: CNP Coal announced that the mines would be closed.
• 1929 June 3
  Ottawa announces that the Dominion will buy enough Pass coal to keep Coal Creek, B.C., mines working.
• 1929 June 17
  Standoff, AB: new St. Paul’s Anglican Church dedicated.
• 1929 August
  The “great fire” on the western shores of B.C.’s Kootenay Lake caused by Railway construction.
• 1929 August
  Fire on the delta of the Elk River ruins Baker Lumber Company’s timber berth.
• 1929 Aug. 31
  Waldo, BC.: Baker Lumber shut down operations.
• 1929 October
  Blue Flame Collieries, Limited, organized to mine coal near Princeton, B.C.
• 1929 Oct. 18
  Britain’s Privy Council declares that women are Persons under the British North America Act and are thereforwe allowed to vote, own property, assume debt, et cetera.
• 1929 Oct. 28
  Lethbridge, AB: George Graham Ross buys into Southern Alberta Air Lines.
• 1929 Oct. 29
  “Black Tuesday”: stock market crash ushers in the Depression.
• 1929 Nov. 14
  Macleod, AB: Empress Theatre screens its first “talkie.”