Period 1939 – 1949

Period 1939 – 1949 for South-western Canada

• 1939
  Hillcrest, AB: Hillcrest Collieries mine shut down.
• 1939
  Lumberton, BC: B.C. Spruce Mills Company shuts down its sawmill, leaving only the planer mill in operation.
• 1939
  B.C.: Peter “the Purger” Verigin dies: the Doukhobor debt bought by the B.C. government and assets leased back to the Community.
• 1939
  Osoyoos, BC: Rialto Hotel completed.
• 1939
  Jaffray, BC: Farmers’ Institute builds second hall.
• 1939
  Nelson, BC: Lord Nelson Hotel completed.
• 1939
  Burmis, AB: H.G. Allen of Calgary buys Burmis Lumber Company.
• 1939
  B.C.: S.R. Cummings and family built their resort at Akokli Creek on Kootenay Lake.
• 1939
  Brilliant, BC: Airstrip laid out as part of the Trans-Canada Airway.
• 1939
  Lethbridge, AB: RCMP donates “Barrack Square” to City.
• 1939
  Blairmore, AB: Sisters of St. Martha open their St. Alphonsus Convent in the Crowsnest RC Parish.
• 1939
  CNP Coal begins settleing mine managers on the future Sparwood, BC, townsite.
• 1939
  Eastern British Columbia rail line up Michel Creek valley in BC stripped of steel.
• 1939
  Wynndel, BC: Alf Farstad and Donald Burns bought up Wynndel Limits and Lumbering Company.
• 1939
  Hedley, BC: Two-storey elementary school completed.
• 1939 January
  J.J. Warren dies. Lorne Argyle Campbell takes over as president of West Kootenay Power.
• 1939 Jan. 29
  Hedley, BC: Two die due to rockfall from Stemwinder Mountain.
• 1939 February
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Flying Training School, Limited, moved to new airport.
• 1939 Feb. 12
  The Trail Smoke Eaters win the World Chmapionship in Zurich, Switzerland.
• 1939 Spring
  AB: RAIN!
• 1939 Apr.1
  Lethbridge, AB: Regular passenger service commenced out of new airport, “Kenyon Field.”
• 1939 Apr. 29
  Fruitvale, BC: Wild fire rips through the Beaver Creek’s valley nearby.
• 1939 June 3
  Federal political: Ottawa passes Prairie Farm Assistance Act. Crop insurance.
• 1939 June 7
  Lethbridge, AB: The Department of Transport declares “Kenyon Field” officially open.
• 1939 June 7
  Lethbridge, AB: “Kenyon Field” becomes an “international” port when Inland Airlines of Wyoming granted landing rights.
• 1939 June 22
  Fruitvale, BC: St. Paul’s United Church building dedicated.
• 1939 July 1
  Kimberley, BC: Mark Creek Store robbed.
• 1939 September
  B.C.: GN’s Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway strips its railbed between Hedley and Princeton.
• 1939 Sep. 10
  Federal political: Canada declares war on Germany.
• 1939 Autumn
  AB: Bountiful harvest.
• 1939 Autumn
  AB: 21,500 acres of sugar beets harvested.
• 1939 Sep. 23
  B.C.: The Waldo Stockbreeders Livestock Association formed. Ellis Sweet, president.
• 1939 Nov. 2
  Federal political: Department of Transport forms the air Services Branch to establish an “airway,” a highway in the air, in Canadian airspace.
• 1939 Dec. 2
  Hillcrest, AB: Hillcrest-Mohawk Collieries seals the Hillcrest mine.
• 1939 Dec. 10
  Lethbridge, AB: City council decides to scrap the tramline system.
• 1939 Dec. 17
  Federal political: Agreement signed in Ottawa creating the British Commonwealth Air Training Program.
• 1939 Dec. 23
  Lethbridge, AB: Kenyon Field designated a military installation.
• 1940
  Federal political: National Registration Act. Resistance by Doukhobors.
• 1940
  Hope, BC: CPR renames “Pétain” yards nearby “Odlum.”
• 1940
  B.C.: Record year for shipping east shore apples from Kootenay Lake, BC.
• 1940
  Yahk, BC: Community hall completed.
• 1940
  Sand Creek, BC: “Sand Creek Superior School” closed.
• 1940
  Northwest Grain Dealers Association changes name to Northwest Line Elevators Assoc.
• 1940 March
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Flight Training School managed by Robert Wilkinson begins running the No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School at Kenyon Field.
• 1940 Mar. 21
  AB election: Aberhart and Social Credit re-elected.
• 1940 Mar. 31
  Osoyoos, BC: Osoyoos Mines of Canada, Limited, ceases mining on Kruger Mountain nearby.
• 1940 Mar. 26
  Election, federal: Mackenzie’s Liberals returned to power.
• 1940 Apr. 8
  Blakeburn, BC: At 1600 hours the last shift leaves Coalmont Collieries’ No. 5 mine. In total the company’s mines output over 2.1 million tons of coal.
• 1940 June 15
  Blakeburn, BC: The postal bureau closes.
• 1940 June 21
  National Resources Mobilization Act passed.
• 1940 July 13
  Galloway, BC: M. Dumont Co. saw and planer mills burn. Rebuilt.
• 1940 July 16
  CP wins permission to abandon its four miles of trackage between Okanagan Landing and Vernon, BC. Rails lifted by August.
• 1940 Sep. 27
  Lethbridge, AB: Department of Transport leases the Kenyon Field.
• 1940 December
  Cranbrook Sash and Door buys the Lumberton, BC, operation.
• 1940 Dec. 18
  Macleod, AB: Air base officially opened for training British Commonwealth Air Training Program personnel.
• 1941
  B.C.: Great Northern suspends passenger service on the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway.
• 1941
  Princeton, BC: A.R. Watkins begins short-lived dredging operations on the Similkameen River upstream from town.
• 1941
  Spokane International Railway re-organized out of receivership as the Spokane International Railroad.
• 1941
  AB: Canadian Gulf Oil Company identified a ridge in the Madison formation as a likely deposit of petroleum.
• 1941
  Bellevue, AB: Record year of production from West Canadian Collieries’ Bellevue mine.
• 1941
  Sanca, BC: Sanca Mines, Limited, closed Valparaiso mine.
• 1941
  Lethbridge, AB: Sewerage system extended to Stafford.
• 1941
  Cowley, AB: Alvin Murphy strings a power grid connected to East Kootenay Power at Sentinel, AB.
• 1941 Mar. 11
  In addition to the fine levied by the International Joint Commission in 1932, Consolidated Mining and Smelting pays a further compensation to Washington farmers for polluting the air.
• 1941 May
  Frank, AB: The Kerr family and Bill Cole begin building the Turtle Mountain Playground.
• 1941 June 20
  Lethbridge, AB: No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School sent to High River, AB.
• 1941 Aug. 29
  B.C. political: Lieutenant-Colonel W.C. Woodward commissioned as the lieutenant-governor.
• 1941 Sep. 15
  Lethbridge, AB: J.J. Hamilton Coal Company seals the old Sheran works.
• 1941 October
  Lethbridge, AB: City power plant converted to burn natural gas. City #1 coal mine closed.
• 1941 Oct. 21
  B.C. election: Pattullo and Liberals win re-election.
• 1941 Nov. 8
  Lethbridge, AB: No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School arrives on Kenyon Field.
• 1941 Dec. 7
  Japanese attack Pearl Harbour.
• 1941 Dec. 7
  Canada declares war on Japan.
• 1941 Dec. 8
  U.S. declares war on Japan.
• 1941 Dec. 8
  Japanese attack Canadian garrison on Hong Kong.
• 1941 Dec. 9
  B.C. political: T.D. Pattullo resigns and succeeded by John Hart and Coalition government. (to December 29, 1947).
• 1941 Dec. 11
  Germany declares war on the U.S.
• 1941 Dec. 15
  Penticton, BC: New Kettle Valley Railway station.
• 1941 Dec. 25
  Hong Kong falls to Japanese, Canadian garrison captured.
• 1942
  Fairview, BC: Kelowna Exploration Company, Limited, takes option on Fairview Amalgamated’s properties.
• 1942
  B.C.: Cranbrook Sash & Door sold the Lumberton townsite to W.H. Horner for salvage.
• 1942
  WA: Grand Coulee Dam completed.
• 1942
  Lethbridge, AB: Internment Camp No. 133 tied into City sewerage system.
• 1942
  B.C.: Province begins issuing permits to harvest Xmas trees on Crown land.
• 1942
  Sanca, BC: Sanca school closed. Students to Boswell.
• 1942
  Creston, BC: First “Blossom Festival.”
• 1942
  B.C.: Government buys CP’s old Bonnington and removes her stack and boiler for installation in the Kootenay Lake ferry, Nasookin.
• 1942 January
  Cowley, AB: Alberta Pacific grain elevator burns. Rebuilt by March.
• 1942 Jan. 8
  Ottawa: The Conference on Japanese Matters convened.
• 1942 Feb. 2
  Federal political: Canadian minister of National Defence, J.L. Ralston, classified all Japanese resident in Canada as “Enemy Aliens” and required that every male between ages eighteen and forty-five be removed 100 miles from the Coast by April 1st.
• 1942 Feb. 24
  Federal political: Canadian minister of Justice, Louis St. Laurent, empowered to evacuate all Japanese to places of internment at least 100 miles inland.
• 1942 Feb. 26
  Federal political: Round-up of ethnic Japanese begins in Canada.
• 1942 April
  Coalhurst, AB: First contingent of Japanese internees assigned to southern Alberta arrive. In total, 2,250 placed in the region.
• 1942 Apr. 20
  B.C.: Agreement to build the Brilliant Dam signed between Consolidated Mining and Smelting, CP and several levels of government.
• 1942 May
  B.C.: CNP Coal begins developing Elk River Collieries.
• 1942 May 2
  AB: (May 10?) Floods inundate Blairemore and Coleman.
• 1942 July 23
  Federal political: Canadian House of Commons approves Conscription.
• 1942 Aug. 17
  Salmo, BC: The federally owned Wartime Metals Corporation bought the Emerald mine nearby.
• 1942 Aug. 19
  The Dieppe Raid: of 5,000 Canadian troops who landed, 907 killed, 1874 captured.
• 1942 Sep. 26
  Princeton, BC: Fire consumes the works of the Princeton Tulameen Coal Company, Limited.
• 1942 Oct. 17
  Elko, BC: The Waldo Stockbreeders Livestock Association holds its first livestock auction in their new corrals.
• 1942 Oct. 17
  “Royal City,” AB: The Royal View—”Swedes'”—mine flooded. Abandoned within a month.
• 1942 Oct. 28
  Official completion date of the Alaska Highway.
• 1942 Nov. 28
  Lethbridge, AB: Internment Camp No. 133 opened.
• 1942 Dec. 1
  Coal Creek, BC: CNP Coal closed the old Colliery.
• 1942 Dec. 11
  Winnipeg. MB: Conservatives elect John Bracken as their leader and change the name of their party to the Progressive Conservative Party of canada.
• 1942 Dec. 29
  James Wesley Wilson and Edith Winifred Pope wed at Edith’s parents’ (Edna Maria and Frederic Austin Pope) homestead; Haven, Alberta.
• 1943
  Selective Services Act implemented. Doukhobors resist.
• 1943
  Brilliant, BC: Jam factory burnt.
• 1943
  AB: C.S. Donaldson takes over management of Lethbridge Collieries, Ltd.
• 1943
  Vancouver, BC: Coalmont Collieries shuts down its head office, having sold off everything salvageable from its mining operations at Blakeburn and Coalmont.
• 1943
  B.C.: Coal Mountain mined by Frank O’Sullivan of Lethbridge for Consolidated Mining and Smelting for a year ending September 23rd, 1944.
• 1943
  Creston, BC: Alf Farstad and Donald Burns buy C.O. Rodgers sawmill.
• 1943 Feb. 5
  The federal British Columbia Security Commission dissolved and administration of “Enemy Alien” internees falls to Department of Labour.
• 1943 May 1
  Father P.N.J. de Coccola dies at 88 years.
• 1943 May 23
  “Bible Bill” Aberhart dies.
• 1943 May 31
  AB political: E.C. Manning succeeds William Aberhart as Social Credit premier of Alberta.
• 1943 November
  Continent-wide coal miners’ strike breaks out.
• 1943 Nov. 13
  Fernie, BC: CNP Coal opens Elk River Collieries on Coal Creek nearby.
• 1943 Dec. 4
  Princeton, BC: Granby Consolidated ceases mining coal.
• 1944
  Great Northern pays CP $4.5 million to escape annual payments for running-rights lease on Coquihalla Subsection.
• 1944
  Nelson, BC: City buys some of Cottonwood mouth land from CP and begins creating an airfield.
• 1944
  Great Northern completes acquisition of the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway.
• 1944
  Kimberley, B.C.: MacDougall Hospital expanded with a clinic.
• 1944
  International Joint Commission established by Canada and the U.S. to address Columbia River concerns.
• 1944
  Coleman, AB: The Town buys its water and power utilities from International Coal & Coke.
• 1944
  West Canadian Collieries begins developing its Adanac mine on its Byron Creek property near Hillcrest, AB. Begins production ion 1945.
• 1944 Mar. 29
  Kimberley, BC, incorporated as a City.
• 1944 Apr. 29
  Princeton, BC: The Princeton Tulameen Coal Company quits mining.
• 1944 June
  Passburg, AB: The “big school” closes.
• 1944 June 15
  SK election: T.C. Douglas leads CCF to power.
• 1944 August
  Brilliant, BC: First two generators come on line at Consolidated Mining and Smelting’s dam. Operated by West Kootenay Power.
• 1944 Aug. 8
  AB election: E.C. Manning and Social Credit re-elected in Alberta.
• 1944 Autumn
  AB political: Province demands Lethbridge close its quasi-legal brothels.
• 1944 Oct. 26
  Macleod, AB: British Commonwealth Air Training Program shuts down its base.
• 1944 Dec. 1
  Lethbridge, AB: No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School disbanded.
• 1944 Dec. 29
  Osoyoos, BC: Kettle Valley Railway branch opened from Oliver.
• 1945
  Grand Forks, BC: Norris Lumber and Box Company changes hands: renamed Grand Forks Saw Mill Limited.
• 1945
  Fernie, BC: City regains its independence from provincial supervision.
• 1945
  Cranbrook, BC: CP completes the reconstruction of the station.
• 1945
  Fritz Sick dies.
• 1945
  Lethbridge, AB: Wm. H. Fairfield retires from the superintendency of the Dominion Experimental Station and farm.
• 1945
  Lethbridge, AB: Maria Elizabeth Van Haarlem dies.
• 1945
  Galloway, BC: Hellen Norris, aka “Ma Henderson, ” dies.
• 1945
  Bellevue, AB: West Canadian Collieries sells Bellevue Inn into private hands.
• 1945
  Frank, AB: Bill Kerr buys sole ownership of the Turtle Mountain Playground.
• 1945 Mar. 1
  Galloway, BC: Mike and Maria Dumont sell sawmill to Jostad and Nelson who formed Galloway Lumber Company, Limited.
• 1945 Mar. 2
  Victoria, BC: Emily Carr dead.
• 1945 April
  British Columbia Public Utilities Commission created to begin constructing a unified provincial power grid.
• 1945 Apr. 23
  Coalhurst, AB: Declared a “hamlet.”
• 1945 May 8
  Victory Europe Day.
• 1945 May 8
  Bull River, B.C.: Post office closed.
• 1945 June 11
  Election, federal: Mackenzie’s Liberals returned to power.
• 1945 Aug. 8
  Hope, BC: First report of fire—the “Big Burn”—up in the Sumallo Valley
• 1945 Aug. 15
  Victory Japan Day.
• 1945 Aug. 31
  After destroying 5,920 acres of fir, pine, spruce, cedar and balsam, the “Big Burn” is extinguished.
• 1945 Oct. 21
  B.C. political: John Hart leads Liberal/Progressive Conservative Coalition to re-election.
• 1945 Nov. 19
  Trail, BC: Selwyn Gwillym Blaylock dies.
• 1945 Dec. 13
  Andrew McCulloch dead; buried in Penticton.
• 1945 Dec. 31
  Oliver, BC: Incorporated as a Village.
• 1946
  Fairview Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, Limited, takes over likeliest properties at Fairview, BC.
• 1946
  B.C.: Labour strike in the East Kootenay woods.
• 1946
  Salmo, BC: Consolidated Mining and Smelting returns attention to HB property nearby.
• 1946
  The CNP Coal’s Morrissey, Fernie and Michel Railway retires its a pair of 1913 2-8-0 Baldwins in favour of a 600-hp Baldwin DS4-4-600 diesel electric. First of the genre to work in B.C.
• 1946
  Grand Forks, BC: New airfield opened.
• 1946
  AB: Province introduced the 40-hour work week.
• 1946
  AB: Expansion of the St. Mary’s Irrigation District was begun.
• 1946
  “Royal City,” AB: The Lethbridge Social Credit Co-operative Mines Association officially closes the Lethbridge Gem mine. Likely not worked since 1942.
• 1946
  Blairmore, AB: West Canadian Collieries’ Greenhill mine hits record production of 759,000 tons.
• 1946
  AB: Coal mines in the province produced a record 8.8 million tons.
• 1946
  Sentinel, AB: East Kootenay Power refurbishes its coal-fired generating station.
• 1946
  Castlegar, BC: City of Nelson buys the Trans-Canada Airway field nearby.
• 1946 Jan. 14
  Osoyoos, BC: Incorporates as a Village.
• 1946 Jan. 23
  Sentinel, AB: An RCAF Dakota slams into Mt. Ptolemy nearby. Seven dead.
• 1946 Feb. 28
  V.J. Creeden of Hedley Mascot Mines Limited presented an obituary for Duncan Woods, erstwhile owner of the Mascot Fraction at Hedley, BC.
• 1946 May 14
  Federal political: Citizenship Act receives royal assent.
• 1946 July 3
  Hedley, BC: Strike at Kelowna Exploration Company’s Nickel Plate operation begins. Last till December 11.
• 1946 Aug. 6
  Kinnaird, BC: Incorporated as a village.
• 1946 Aug. 29
  BC political: Colonel the Honourable C.A. Banks commissioned as the lieutenant-governor.
• 1946 August
  Hillcrest-Mohawk Collieries, Limited, takes over Tent Mountain stripping operation from the Fred Mannix & Co.
• 1946 Sep. 25
  Hillcrest-Mohawk Collieries, Limited, ended its working season on Coal Mountain.
• 1946 Sep. 26
  H.A. McKowan dies.
• 1946 Oct. 30
  Castlegar, BC: Incorporated as a Village.
• 1946 Oct. 30
  Salmo, BC: Incorporated as a Village.
• 1946 Dec. 22
  Lethbridge, AB: Internment Camp No. 133 closed.
• 1946 Dec. 31
  Slocan Lake, BC: CPR class M4g 3512 (2-8-0 Consolidation) and several cars falls off barge.
• 1947
  B.C. Provincial Commission of Inquiry in the activities of the Doukhobors, particularly the Sons of Freedom sect.
• 1947
  Sparwood, BC: Building lots first offered for purchase.
• 1947
  Christina Lake, BC: Lagoon Pavilion burns.
• 1947
  Lethbridge, AB: Runways at Kenyon Field lengthened.
• 1947
  Galloway, BC: Post Office closes its local bureau in Galloway Lumber offices and moves it across The Highway to the Midway Confectionary.
• 1947
  Sentinel, AB: the Huffman family begin building Glacier Cabins nearby on Crowsnest Lake. Now the Kozy Knest Kabins.
• 1947
  The M.V. Anscomb relieves the Nasookin on the East Shore-Balfour crossing of Kootenay Lake.
• 1947
  Creston, BC: Canyon Street widened to accommodate the Crowsnest Highway.
• 1947
  B.C.: Up-grading of Kootenay Lake’s east shore road begins.
• 1947
  Galloway, BC: School closed.
• 1947
  Coleman, AB: International C&C begins stripping coal from its York Creek property.
• 1947
  B.C.: Canadian Pacific Airlines begins service between Vancouver and points in southern Interior.
• 1947
  Cranbrook, BC: Scheduled air service begins.
• 1947
  Federal political: The last of the ethnic Japanese finally released from detention.
• 1947
  B.C.: L.A. Campbell, president of West Kootenay Power, dies.
• 1947
  Consolidated Mining and Smelting buys West Kootenay Power’s durable assets except the Lower Bonnington dam and generating station. West Kootenay Power contracted to run Consolidated Mining and Smelting’s plants.
• 1947 Jan. 1
  Canadian Citizenship Act proclaimed (See 1946/06/27). Citizens Canadian first, British subjects second.
• 1947 Feb. 5
  Michel, BC: Crow’s Nest Pass Coal opens the Erickson strip mine nearby.
• 1947 Feb. 13
  Thursday.
• 1947 Feb. 13
  Leduc, AB: 1610 hours, in Mike Turta’s barley field nearby, Imperial Oil’s Leduc No. 1 well “blows in.”
• 1947 Mar. 21
  Brookmere, BC: KVR three-stall enginehouse destroyed when boiler of #907 exploded. Enginehouse rebuilt as a four-stall structure.
• 1947 Apr. 22
  Canadian Gulf Oil Company begins drilling Pincher Creek No. 1 in s-w Alberta.
• 1947 May 7
  Leduc, AB: less than 2 miles away from Imperial Leduc No. 1, Leduc No. 2, under the direction of Aubrey Kerr, strikes oil.
• 1947 May 14
  Federal political: Federal Chinese Immigration Act(s) repealed.
• 1947 May 27
  Nelson, BC: First plane lands on lakefront airfield.
• 1947 June 2
  For the record: International Coal and Coke Company of Coleman has 531 shareholders subscribing to 3 million of 3 million $1.00 shares.
• 1947 June 2
  For the record: McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke of Coleman, Alberta, has 481 shareholders subscribing to 2,683,000 of 3 million $1.00 shares.
• 1947 June 12
  Salmo, BC: Having paid nearly $1,000,000 for the Emerald property earlier in the year, Placer Development Limited’s wholly-owned Canadian Exploration Company (Canex) subsidiary began milling operations.
• 1947 Sep. 8
  Lethbridge, AB: Last of the civic tram lines, the Blue Line, decommissioned and removal begins.
• 1947 Nov. 7
  Atkinson Dredging Company, Limited, of Vancouver begins operations few miles above Princeton. Quit on November 8th, 1949.
• 1947 Dec. 28
  Canadian Gulf Oil’s afore-noted Pincher Creek No. 1 blows in.
• 1947 Dec. 29
  B.C. political: John Hart resigns as premier. Replaced by Byron Ingemar Johnson as coalition premier.
• 1948
  Highway No. 3 complete between Okanagan Falls, BC, and Princeton, BC.
• 1948
  B.C.: Villages of Castlegar and Kinnaird buy from the City of Nelson part ownership of Ralph West Airfield near Brilliant, BC.
• 1948
  Boswell, BC: School closes. Students to Crawford Bay.
• 1948
  Sanca, BC: Lots at “New Sanca” up for sale.
• 1948
  Galloway, BC: Galloway Lumber operations electrified by East Kooteany Power.
• 1948
  B.C.: Nasookin scrapped.
• 1948
  Lethbridge, AB: CP places “skunks”—gas/electric self-propelled cars—on the runs south to Coutts, Sterling, Cardston.
• 1948
  Lethbridge, AB: Instrument landing aids installed at Kenyon Field.
• 1948
  Cardston, AB: Kainai high school students permitted to attend Cardston High to get their grades 11 and 12.
• 1948
  Coleman, AB: International C&C begins a 2-year program of capital investment in its works.
• 1948 Feb. 16
  Fire devastates downtown Coleman, AB.
• 1948 Spring
  B.C.: Great floods.
• 1948 May
  AB: Floods inundate upper Crowsnest River valley.
• 1948 May 10
  Penticton, BC: Incorporated as a City.
• 1948 May 24
  Fernie, BC: High water on the Elk River flooded town.
• 1948 May 24
  Kimberley, BC: High water on Mark Creek flooded town.
• 1948 June 1
  Creston Flats, BC: Kootenay River breaches the dikes.
• 1948 July 1
  Osoyoos, BC: First Cherry Festival.
• 1948 July 23
  A Friday.
• 1948 July 23
  Edmonton, AB: Donald Malcolm Wilson born in the Royal Alexandra.
• 1948 Aug. 17
  AB election: E.C. Manning and Social Credit re-elected in Alberta.
• 1948 Sep. 25
  Coal Mountain, AB: Hillcrest-Mohawk Collieries, Limited, suspends operations.
• 1948 Nov. 15
  Federal political: Louis St. Laurent succeeds as Liberal prime minister.