Period 1930 – 1939

Period 1930 – 1939 for South-western Canada

• 1930
  Hope, BC: Driveable track completed to Allison Pass.
• 1930
  B.C.: V. Vasseur and P. Longeville set up a small sawmill at Destiny Bay, the first on the Kootenay Lake’s east shore.
• 1930
  Kitchener, BC: The last saw mill closes.
• 1930
  Galloway, BC: Postal bureau moved into Dumont’s company store.
• 1930
  Sand Creek, BC: New lumber-built school.
• 1930
  Lethbridge, AB: Addition to Galt Hospital completed. Old 1891 structure demolished.
• 1930
  East Kootenay, BC: B.C. Telephone Co. builds trunk line on Kikomun doab.
• 1930
  Rock Creek, BC: Kettle Valley Railway replaces wooden Howe truss bridge over Kettle nearby with steel truss.
• 1930
  Creston, BC: R.J. Long’s Creston Hotel burned.
• 1930
  Kimberley, BC: Kimberley ski club completes making a ski-run on North Star Mountain.
• 1930
  Corbin, BC: Workers organize the Corbin Miners’ Association and allied themselves with the Mine Workers Union of Canada.
• 1930
  Trail, BC: West Kootenay Power and Light moves from Rossland to new headquarters building.
• 1930 Jan. 15
  Lethbridge, AB: Postmaster General approves City as an airmail point of call.
• 1930 Jan. 19
  Okanagan Falls, BC: United Church building, moved down from Fairview Camp the previous year, is rededicated.
• 1930 February
  New Westminster, BC: George Owen Buchanan dies.
• 1930 Feb. 16
  Sentinal, AB: East Kootenay Power’s grid interlinked with that of Calgary Power nearby.
• 1930 Mar. 4
  Osoyoos, BC: Board of Trade organized.
• 1930 Apr. 17
  Lethbridge, AB: Southern Alberta Air Lines puts on an airshow.
• 1930 Spring
  Christina Lake, BC: Ole Johnson opens the Alpine Inn.
• 1930 May 23
  Crow’s Nest, BC: The Post Office officially renames the railway settlement “Crowsnest.”
• 1930 June 16
  U.S.A.: “Smoot-Hawley” tariff act implements a 75% surcharge on all coal imported from Canada.
• 1930 June 19
  AB election: Brownlee’s UFA party re-elected in Alberta.
• 1930 July 28
  Election, federal: R.B. Bennett leads Progressive Conservatives to power.
• 1930 Aug. 4
  Wardner, BC: Arsonist destroys CNP Lumber’s No. 1 plant.
• 1930 Aug. 13
  Coalmont, BC: “Black Wednesday”; 45 dead at Blakeburn mine nearby.
• 1930 Autumn
  AB: 12,000 acres of sugar beets harvested for Utah-Idaho Sugar Company at Raymond.
• 1930 Oct. 1
  Federal political: Ottawa surrenders control of natural resources to individual western provinces.
• 1930 Oct. 1
  Lethbridge, AB: City buys Lethbridge Commercial Airways’ hangar at the airfield.
• 1930 Nov. 2
  Lethbridge, AB: The first Alberta Air Tour visits the City.
• 1930 Nov. 4
  Pincher Creek, AB: The first Alberta Air Tour visits the Town.
• 1930 Nov. 15
  Princeton, BC: Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting shuts down Copper Mountain operation nearby.
• 1930 Dec. 5
  B.C.: The Kettle Valley Railway closes its Copper Mountain spur.
• 1931
  B.C.: Great forest fire on Anarchist Mountain destroys remains of Camp McKinney, BC.
• 1931
  Alfred Cornelius Flumerfelt, president of International Coal & Coke of Coleman, AB, dies.
• 1931
  Yahk, BC: Aerodrome completed.
• 1931
  Lethbridge, AB: Sisters of St. Martha complete new St. Michael’s Hospital.
• 1931
  B.C.: Kimberley Dynamiters formed to play in the B.C. Amateur Hockey Association.
• 1931
  AB: CPR cuts back passenger service south of Lethbridge.
• 1931
  AB: B.C. Sugar Refining Company buys Utah-Idaho Sugar Company’s plant at Raymond.
• 1931
  The BC Sugar Refining Company of Vancouver bought out Canadian Sugar Factories, Limited.
• 1931
  Blairmore, AB: Crow’s Nest Pass Golf and Country Club organized.
• 1931
  Fernie, BC: Department of Transport built airstrip as part of the Trans-Canada Airway.
• 1931
  Yahk, BC: CP’s Tie and Timber Branch shuts down its sawmill.
• 1931
  Bull River, BC: Bull River Hotel burns. Rebuilt.
• 1931
  B.C.: Great forest fire in upper Michel Creek valley damages Eastern British Columbia Railway facilities.
• 1931
  Castlegar, BC: Alexander Zuckerberg arrives to teach.
• 1931
  Hedley, BC: Hedley Gold Mining Company Limited quits mining on Nickel Plate Mountain.
• 1931
  Hedley, BC: Hedley Mascot Gold Mines acquires the Mascot on Nickel Plate Mountain.
• 1931
  Gray Creek, BC: Road completed from Kuskonook on the east shore of Kootenay Lake.
• 1931 Jan. 1
  B.C.: The Kettle Valley Railway becomes Kettle Valley Division of CPR.
• 1931 Jan. 1
  B.C.: BC Southern tracks along western shore of BC’s Lake Kootenay opened.
• 1931 Jan. 15
  Lethbridge, AB: Herbert Hollick-Kenyon of Canadian Airways lands his east-bound Fokker monoplane with mail aboard.
• 1931 Jan. 16
  Lethbridge, AB: Harold Farrington of Canadian Airways lands his west-bound Boeing 40B-4 biplane with mail aboard.
• 1931 Feb. 1
  Lethbridge, AB: Southern Alberta Air Lines pilot I.F. Thomson and passenger Don McKenzie die in crash.
• 1931 Mar. 26
  Cranbrook, BC: Airfield opened.
• 1931 April
  B.C.: Province leases Nasookin and converts it to a car ferry to run across BC’s Kootenay Lake between Balfour and the east shore.
• 1931 Apr. 18
  Lethbridge, AB: Southern Alberta Air Lines sells its last airplane and winds up business.
• 1931 Apr. 26
  Lethbridge, AB: Chinook Flying Services of Calgary opened a Lethbridge school with Joe Patton instructing.
• 1931 Apr. 26
  WA: GN discontinues WGN service between Oroville and Molson. Hardware removed in 1932.
• 1931 May 1
  Lethbridge, AB: Big May Day parade.
• 1931 May 5
  AB political: William Legh Walsh appointed lieutenant-governor (to October 1st, 1936).
• 1931 May 24
  Lethbridge, AB: Chinook Flying Services puts on an air show.
• 1931 June 26-29
  Lethbridge, AB: All-Canadian Air Tour thrills the citizens.
• 1931 July
  B.C.: Forest fires ravage BC’s Rocky Mountain Trench.
• 1931 July 18
  BC political: J.W.F. Johnson commissioned as the lieutenant-governor.
• 1931 July 19
  Lethbridge, AB: Trans Canada Air Pageant visits.
• 1931 July 22
  Lethbridge, AB: George Graham Ross forms Rancher’s Air Line, Limited. Struck from the Register of Companies 1938/03/31.
• 1931 August
  B.C.: Wild fire on the Elk River delta destroys the orchards of the “South Fork District.”
• 1931 Aug. 1
  Federal political: Sir James Howden Macbrien, KCB, CMG, DSO, appointed eighth Commissioner of the RCMP (to March 5, 1938).
• 1931 Aug. 15
  Lethbridge, AB: Canadian Airways leases the City-owned hangar at the aerodrôme.
• 1931 Aug. 18
  Elko, BC: Elk River delta forest fire blows into town and consumes 22 buildings, mostly residences.
• 1931 Aug. 20
  Lethbridge, AB: Canadian Airways makes the City a divisional point on its air way.
• 1931 Sep. 10
  Wardner, BC: CNP Lumber ceases operations.
• 1931 Sep. 29
  Estevan, SK: “Black Tuesday”; RCMP kill 3 protesting strikers.
• 1931 October
  Lethbridge, AB: Federal concrete grain terminal opened.
• 1931 November
  Lethbridge, AB: Canadian Airways stations two new Boeing mail planes, CF-AMP and CF-AMQ, at the Lethbridge field.
• 1931 Nov. 10
  Macleod, AB: Henrietta Louise Muir Edwards dies.
• 1931 Dec. 11
  Statute of Westminster (22, 23 Geo.V c. 4) declares that the Dominions in the British Empire are now legislatively autonomous. Canada asks that Britain retain power of amendment to British North America Act.
• 1931 Winter
  B.C.: Heavy snows in the Cascades force closure of Kettle Valley Railway’s Coquihalla section.
• 1932
  B.C.: Doukhobors first massed nude protest march in the Kootenays. Begins at Thrums.
• 1932
  Fernie, BC: City rescued from default by Province.
• 1932
  Bull River, BC: school closed.
• 1932
  Sand Creek, BC: Addition to new school. Renamed “Sand Creek Superior School.”
• 1932
  The provinces of Alberta and BC merge their respective “Red Route” and “Black Route” into the No. 3, Interprovincial Highway.
• 1932
  Blairmore, AB: Colonel A.G. Peucheon’s McLaren Lumber Company ceases operations.
• 1932
  West Kootenay Power and Light finishes Corra Linn Dam and No. 4 power plant on Kootenay River.
• 1932
  Bromley Vale Collieries, Limited, begins operations on Bromley Creek near Princeton, BC.
• 1932
  Princeton, BC: Area coal miners organize themselves into a union.
• 1932
  Osoyoos, BC: Osoyoos Co-operative Fruit and Vegetable Growers organized itself under presidency of G.J. Fraser.
• 1932
  Corbin, BC: Corbin Collieries invests hugely in equipment.
• 1932
  Frank, AB: Interprovincial Highway No. 3 built through the debrise field of The Slide. Modern alignment of the Crowsnest Highway.
• 1932
  Fernie, BC: CNP Coal allows the Fernie, BC, coke ovens to go cold. Never fired again.
• 1932
  Michel, BC: CNP Coal opens new tipple.
• 1932 Feb. 3
  Burmis, AB: School house burns. Replaced.
• 1932 Feb. 23
  Blairmore, AB: Workers in West Canadian Collieries’ Greenhill mine walk out. Beginning of long strike.
• 1932 Feb. 24
  Bellevue, AB: Workers in West Canadian Collieries’ Bellevue mine walk out.
• 1932 Feb. 28
  The International Joint Commission fined Consolidated Mining and Smelting $350,000 and awarded it to Washington farmers in compensation for pollution damages.
• 1932 Mar. 31
  AB: Canadian Airways cancels its Prairie Air Mail Service.
• 1932 Apr. 1
  Alberta Provincial Police absorbed by the RCMP.
• 1932 Apr. 1
  Manitoba Provincial Police absorbed by the RCMP.
• 1932 June 11
  B.C. Registrar of Companies, H.G. Garrett, sends Notice of Intent to Dissolve to the British Columbia Copper Mining Company, Limited.
• 1932 June 18
  Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park established.
• 1932 June 29
  Application made to incorporate the Rossland Co-operative Transportation Society.
• 1932 Aug. 1
  Calgary, AB: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation created.
• 1932 Nov. 30
  AB: Southern Alberta Air Lines struck from the Register of Companies.
• 1933
  CP sells half interest in Spokane International to Union Pacific.
• 1933
  AB: Dentonia Mines, Limited, organized in Calgary to buy up Jewel Lake properties near Greenwood, BC.
• 1933
  Federal political: Ottawa introduced a transportation subsidy on Western coal delivered to the Lakehead.
• 1933
  Christina Lake, BC: Ms. Gustavson opens the Lagoon Pavilion.
• 1933
  Hedley, BC: Kelowna Exploration Company Limited, a subsidiary of J.W. Mercer’s South American Development Company, buys Nickel Plate mine.
• 1933
  Cowley, AB: Cowley School burns. Replaced.
• 1933
  AB: CPR suspends passenger service south of Lethbridge.
• 1933
  Seattle, WA: The Sicks move their brewing headquarters hither.
• 1933
  B.C.: Osoyoos Mines of Canada, Limited, evolves from the Northern Syndicate, Limited, and acquired claims on Kruger Mountain including the Lakeview, the Dividend and the Little Manx.
• 1933
  B.C.: Morning Star (Fairview) Gold Mines, Limited, organized in Vancouver to buy Morning Star mine at Fairview.
• 1933
  Sanca, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company leases Valparaiso group from Sanca Mines, Limited. Installed aerial tram and worked the property for a year.
• 1933 January
  Coal Creek, BC: CNP Coal shuts down No. 1 and No. 2 South.
• 1933 January
  B.C.: Province buys the Nasookin for $17,000.
• 1933 February
  Blairmore, AB: Voters elect Wm. Knight and a “workers’ slate” to the Town’s council.
• 1933 March
  Coal Creek, BC: CNP Coal shuts down No. 3 South.
• 1933 May 1
  Federal political: Department of National Defence begins administering make-work camps (to June 30th, 1936).
• 1933 May 23
  Federal political: Canadian National-Canadian Pacific Act requires the two railroads to co-operate in delivering rail service to Canadians.
• 1933 June 1
  Macleod, AB: RCMP move their offices into Town from the old fort site. Fort site abandoned.
• 1933 July
  Regina, SK: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation adopts the “Regina Manifesto” as its platform.
• 1933 Nov. 2
  B.C. political: 18th General Election.
• 1933 Nov. 15
  B.C. political: Thomas Dufferin Pattullo and Liberals succeed S.F. Tolmie and Conservatives.
• 1933 Dec. 5
  U.S.A. political: Volstead Act repealed. Prohibition ends
• 1933 Dec. 16
  Princeton, BC: Popular demonstration convinces provincial government to withdraw the most confrontational members of the Provincial Police and suppress the KKK.
• 1934
  Medicine Hat to Vancouver, 959 rail miles via Crowsnest Pass.
• 1934
  B.C.: C.V. Cady and Lumber and Pole Company take over M.L. Bruce Lumber Company operation in the Akokli Creek valley on the east shore of Kootenay Lake.
• 1934
  Princeton, BC: Riverside Motor Court opens.
• 1934
  Frank, AB: CPR “roundhouse” burns.
• 1934
  Lethbridge, AB: “Orange Line” of civic tram line downtown re-opened.
• 1934
  Galloway, BC: School built.
• 1934
  Frederick Ogilvie Loft, founder and guiding light of The League of Indians of Canada, dies.
• 1934
  Blairmore, AB: West Canadian Collieries completes a wet washery at the Greenhill mine.
• 1934
  B.C.: Boundary Creek Mining Company, Limited, commences dredging operations on Boundary Creek between Midway and Greenwood.
• 1934
  Salmo, BC: Surface plant of Iron Mountain mine nearby burned by forest fire.
• 1934
  Salmo, BC: J.R. Hunnex opens drugstore in his new building.
• 1934
  Sand Creek, BC: Senior classes cancelled at “Sand Creek Superior School.”
• 1934
  Corbin, BC: No. 6 mine catches fire and is sealed.
• 1934 Jan. 1
  Creston, BC: West Kootenay Power began supplying the Village.
• 1934 Jan. 31
  U.S.A. political: Treasury increases its buying price for gold by $15, to $35 per ounce.
• 1934 February
  Nelson, BC: Robert William Yuill dead.
• 1934 February
  Coalhurst, AB: A subsidiary of Lethbridge Collieries, Coal Producers, Ltd., merges with Galt Coal and Cadillac Coal companies to form Royalties Oil & Share Corp. Ltd. to operate the Imperial mine.
• 1934 Apr. 23
  Princeton, BC: Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway’s bridge flood damaged.
• 1934 July
  Cascade, BC: Much of town destroyed by fire.
• 1934 Aug. 30
  Coalhurst, AB: Royalties Oil & Share Corp. Ltd. reaches an agreement with the One Big Union membership of the Imperial mine. Labour action averted.
• 1934 September
  Lethbridge, AB: CPR begins digging Galt No. 8.
• 1934 Oct. 7
  AB political: R.G. Reid succeeds Brownlee as UFA premier.
• 1934 Dec. 3
  AB: Crow’s Nest Pass Flying Club incorporated.
• 1934 Dec. 19
  Coalhurst, AB: Fire wipes out much of CBD.
• 1934 Dec. 26
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt No. 8 strikes coal.
• 1934 End
  Coleman, AB: Consolidated Mining & Smelting owns controlling interest in International Coal & Coke.
• 1935
  Federal political: Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act.
• 1935
  Lorne Argyle Campbell becomes president of International Coal and Coke, and McGillivray Creek C&C.
• 1935
  Creston, BC: The Midland Pacific Grain Corporation built a 60,000 bushel grain elevator. First one.
• 1935
  B.C.: Province erects roadblocks on highways to prevent dust-bowl immigration from Prairies.
• 1935
  Princeton, BC: Tulameen Coal Company folds.
• 1935
  Jaffray, BC: Payne’s Fox Farm goes out of business.
• 1935
  B.C.: CP abandons rails to Lynch Creek north of Grand Forks.
• 1935
  Greenwood, BC: Fire mauls core.
• 1935
  B.C.: Tribunal appointed to investigate Washington farmers’ extended claim against Consolidated Mining and Smelting for pollution from the Trail smelter.
• 1935
  Nelson, BC: Canada Zinc Company’s abandoned buildings demolished.
• 1935
  Hedley, BC: Kelowna Exploration Company Limited begins production at the Nickel Plate mine.
• 1935 Jan. 6
  B.C.: CP suspends passenger service on Lake Okanagan: last regular sailing of the Sicamous. Hull repairs and superstructure modifications (‘Texas’ deck removed and aft part of ‘B’ deck). Relaunched in July.
• 1935 Jan. 7
  Kelowna, BC: CPR begins train service on CN rails.
• 1935 Jan. 22
  Corbin, BC: Coal miners begin strike.
• 1935 Feb. 6
  Nelson, BC: John Frederick Hume dead.
• 1935 Feb. 28
  WA: The Interstate Commerce Commission allows the GN to discontinue service between Curlew and Molson. Hardware removed by year’s end.
• 1935 Mar. 14
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt No. 6 abandoned.
• 1935 Apr. 17
  Nelson, BC: Opera House burns.
• 1935 Apr. 26
  Lethbridge, AB: E.J. Boffa demonstrates aerial spraying from his WACO.
• 1935 Apr. 1
  AB: CPR incorporates Lethbridge Collieries, Limited to hold and operate the mining assets of the former Alberta Railway & Irrigation Co., the Galt No. 8 mine and the Federal Mine at Lethbridge, Cadillac Coal Company Limited’s Standard mine at Shaughnessy, and the Royalties and Share Corporation Limited’s Imperial Mine at Coalhurst by the Coal Mining Branch of the Department of Natural Resources under the direction of Peter Lawrence Naismith.
• 1935 Apr. 19
  Corbin, BC: “Black Wednesday.” A Caterpillar tractor used to break up demonstration by miners’ wives.
• 1935 May 7
  WA: Corbin Coal Company announces in Spokane that the mines at Corbin, B.C., to be closed.
• 1935 June 3
  Vancouver, BC: “On to Ottawa” trek begins.
• 1935 June 7
  Lethbridge, AB: Aerial spraying demonstrated from Ford Tri-Motor, G-CARC.
• 1935 July 1
  Monday.
• 1935 July 1
  Regina, SK: “On to Ottawa” trek stopped. Riot in Market Square.
• 1935 Aug. 22
  AB election: William Aberhart leads Social Credit party to power.
• 1935 Autumn
  Granby Mining, Smelting and Power Company, Limited, of Vancouver and New York sells its Anyox operation to Consolidated Mining and Smelting.
• 1935 Sep. 27
  CPR permitted to abandon its Kettle Valley Division’s North Fork Subdivision between Grand Forks and Archibald.
• 1935 Oct. 14
  Federal election: W.L.M. King leads Liberals to power.
• 1935 November
  Sanca, BC: school opened in an old cabin.
• 1935 Nov. 22
  Macleod, AB: Town purchases a parcel of land upon which to build an airfield.
• 1935 Dec. 6
  Spokane, WA: Peter Lund dead. (April 6?)
• 1935 Dec. 9
  Coalhurst, AB.: Imperial mine blows out around 1615 hours: 16 dead, 3 injured.
• 1936
  West Kootenay Power and Light completes second 63 kV line to Princeton, BC, area (No. 43).
• 1936
  Midway, BC.: Midway Aerodrome completed.
• 1936
  Bull River, BC: School classes commence in the community hall.
• 1936
  Lumber and Pole Company flume in the Akokli Creek valley on the east shore of Kootenay Lake, BC, washed out. Logging operations end.
• 1936
  Creston, BC: The Alberta Wheat Pool erected a grain elevator.
• 1936
  Greenwood, BC: Major fire in downtown.
• 1936
  Burmis, AB: Cornelius Van Wyk forms Burmis Lumber Company and sets up operations nearby.
• 1936
  Coleman, AB: new brick-built high school opens downtown.
• 1936
  Alberta Forest Service established.
• 1936
  B.C.: Big fire in BC’s upper Elk River valley.
• 1936 Jan. 20
  King George V dies. Succeeded by Edward VIII.
• 1936 February
  B.C.: Crows Nest Southern applies for permission to cease operations.
• 1936 February
  AB: Record cold snap in the Crowsnest Pass.
• 1936 Apr. 29
  BC Political: E.W. Hamber commissioned as the lieutenant-governor.
• 1936 May 5
  Hedley, BC: Hedley Mascot Gold Mining Limited’s mill nearby begins operations.
• 1936 May 30
  Coalhurst, AB: Lethbridge Collieries Limited declares the Imperial abandoned.
• 1936 June 16
  Turner Valley, AB: First oil well blows in. Beginning of Alberta’s oil boom.
• 1936 June 30
  Federal political: Department of National Defence ceases administering federal and provincial work-camps (from May 1, 1933).
• 1936 Aug. 27
  Lethbridge, AB: Canadian Airways lands its new Lockheed 10A Electra, CF-BAF, on the old aerodrôme.
• 1936 Sep. 20
  Corra Linn, BC: Train No. 11, Kootenay Express, derails at the power plant in Kootenay valley west of Nelson, BC.
• 1936 Oct. 1
  AB political: Col. Philip Carteret Hill Primrose appointed lieutenant-governor. (to March 23rd, 1937).
• 1936 Oct. 4
  Picture Butte, AB.: The B.C. Sugar Refining Company opens its second Alberta plant. (Bought up Utah-Idaho Sugar’s plant at Raymond in 1931)
• 1936 November
  Trail, BC: CP suspends passenger service Rossland.
• 1936 November
  GN suspends service on its Crow’s Nest Southern.
• 1936 Nov. 2
  Federal political: The Department of Marine and the Department of Railways and Canals into the Department of Transport.
• 1936 Dec. 1
  Coalhurst, AB: The Corporation of the Village of Coalhurst declares itself dissolved.
• 1936 Dec. 10
  Edward VIII of England executes an Instrument of Abdication dated for the following day.
• 1936 Dec. 12
  Albert Frederick Arthur George of the House of Windsor crowned George VI, King of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the British Dominions, and Emperor of India.
• 1936 Dec. 21
  Montréal, PQ: Hayter Reed dies.
• 1937
  Princeton, BC: Pleasant Valley Mining shuts down.
• 1937
  Princeton, BC: Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting begins coal mining operations nearby.
• 1937
  Sanca, BC: New school completed.
• 1937
  Bull River, BC: Old school torn down.
• 1937
  Jaffray, BC: Farmers’ Institute builds hall.
• 1937
  CNR suspends the operations of the Pentowna on BC’s Lake Okanagan.
• 1937
  Relief camp workers complete paving what is now Highway 3/95, 95 between Kingsgate on the Boundary and Fairmont Hotsprings.
• 1937
  B.C.: First year that Glenlily students bussed to Yahk.
• 1937
  B.C.: Moyie Gold Mines, Limited, this year works the Midway mine near Ryan in the Moyie valley.
• 1937
  B.C.: GN rips up its Crow’s Nest Southern rails.
• 1937
  Blairmore, AB: Communist Enoch Williams elected mayor.
• 1937
  Blairmore, AB: Tim Buck Boulevard re-named Victoria Avenue.
• 1937
  Lethbridge, AB: Galt No. 8 electrified. Capable of outputing 1100 tons per day.
• 1937
  Lethbridge, AB: City buys 730 acres on southern outskirts for an airport.
• 1937
  “Royal City,” AB: Lethbridge Social Credit Co-operative Mines Association re-opens the Chester coal mine.
• 1937
  Chapman Camp, BC: Community incorporated as a Village.
• 1937
  B.C.: Boundary Creek Placers Limited begins hydraulic monitor operations on Boundary Creek.
• 1937
  Princeton, BC: GN’s Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway abandons Yards to the Kettle Valley Railway.
• 1937
  B.C.: The Doukhobors’ commercial arm, the Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood, Limited, defaults on debts to the Bank of Commerce and decleares bankrupty.
• 1937
  Lockhart Creek, BC: Bob Yuill’s lodge on Kootenay Lake burns.
• 1937 Jan. 27
  AB: Coalhurst School District merged into Lethbridge School Division #7.
• 1937 March
  Natal, BC: Hospital opened.
• 1937 Mar. 23
  AB political: John Campbell Bowen appointed lieutenant-governor (to February 1st, 1950).
• 1937 Apr. 10
  Federal political: Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) created as a subsidiary of Canadian National Railways.
• 1937 May 16
  Princeton, BC: CP re-opens the Kettle Valley Railway’s old Copper Mountain spur.
• 1937 June
  Princeton, BC: Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting begins mining Copper Mountain yet again.
• 1937 June 1
  B.C. political: T.D. Pattullo and Liberals re-elected.
• 1937 Summer
  AB: A tease of rain falls during growing season.
• 1937 July 31
  Lethbridge, AB: Department of Transport L-12A CF-CCT landed at the old aerodrôme on a tour of inspection.
• 1937 Sep. 1
  Trans-Canada Air Lines first official flight.
• 1937 Sep. 6
  Oliver, BC: Airstrip completed.
• 1937 Sep. 30
  Board of Railway Commissioners grants the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway permission to suspend service west of Hedley.
• 1937 Oct. 12
  Lethbridge, AB: Trans-Canada Air Lines landed CF-TCB, an L-10A, at the old aerodrôme.
• 1937 Oct. 25
  Michel, BC: New tipple begins to burn down.
• 1937 Nov. 8
  Lethbridge, AB: Trans-Canada Air Lines leases the old aerodrôme for eight months.
• 1937 Nov. 9
  Lethbridge, AB: Department of Transport L-12A CF-CCT landed at new airfield.
• 1937 Nov. 21
  B.C.: Southern Okanagan Land Project begins selling building lots on its townsite of Osoyoos.
• 1937 Dec. 13
  Lethbridge, AB: Trans-Canada Air Lines posts a cadre of air engineers.
• 1937 Dec. 15
  Lethbridge, AB: Trans-Canada Air Lines landed CF-TCA, an L-10A, at the old aerodrôme on a tour of inspection.
• 1938
  Bumper crop year in south-western Alberta.
• 1938
  Michel, BC: Three maintenance men killed at CNP Coal’s idled mine.
• 1938
  B.C.: GN suspends passenger service out of Grand Forks.
• 1938
  Blairmore, AB: Crow’s Nest Pass Ski Club organized.
• 1938
  Passburg, AB: post office closed.
• 1938
  Lethbridge, AB: Flying Associates of Winnipeg opened a flying school under instructor A.J. Currie using CF-BLW, a Luscombe 8. Folded in May of 1939.
• 1938
  Floods on BC’s Creston flats.
• 1938
  Peak year for grain elevators: 5,758 licensed in western Canada.
• 1938
  Coleman, AB: Calgary Breweries buys the Grand Union Hotel.
• 1938
  Osoyoos Mines of Canada, Limited, pours its first gold brick from ore extracted from Kruger Mountain, BC, claims.
• 1938
  Cowley, AB: Department of Transport lays out a landing strip 10 miles north of town.
• 1938 Feb. 15
  Lumberton, BC: B.C. Spruce Mills Company quit cutting timber.
• 1938 Mar. 1
  Lethbridge, AB: Trans-Canada Air Lines delivers first mail to the City.
• 1938 Mar. 6
  Federal political: Stuart Taylor Wood, C.M.G., appointed nineth Commissioner of the RCMP (to April 30, 1951).
• 1938 Spring
  The dykes gave way on BC’s Creston flats: 14,500 acres flooded.
• 1938 April
  Hillcrest Collieries, Limited, and Mohawk Bituminous Collieries amalgamate to form Hillcrest-Mohawk Collieries.
• 1938 Jun. 19
  Vancouver, BC: Bloody Sunday: police end the occupation of the post office by the Relief Project Workers Union.
• 1938 Summer
  B.C.: Forest fires in Cascades burn Kettle Valley Railway bridges and snow sheds.
• 1938 Jul. 8
  Michel, BC: Three die in explosion “B” mine.
• 1938 Aug. 15
  AB: Crow’s Nest Pass Flying Club struck from the Register of Companies.
• 1938 Sep. 8
  Lethbridge, AB: Trans-Canada Air Lines landed CF-TCA, an L-10A, at the new airport.
• 1938 Sep. 20
  Coal Creek, BC: Three killed and four injured in bump in CNP Coal’s No. 1 East.
• 1938 Oct. 1
  Lethbridge, AB: Trans-Canada Airlines begins regular service out of the City’s new air field.
• 1938 Oct. 8
  Lethbridge, AB: Department of Trasport licences the City’s new airport.
• 1938 Nov. 11
  The International Joint Commission allows West Kootenay Power to raise the level of Kootenay Lake to feed the Corra Linn generationg station.
• 1938 December
  B.C.: British Columbia Public Utilities Commission created.
• 1938 Dec. 25
  Trail, BC: Saint Anthony of Padua celebrated its first mass.