Period 1962 – 1974

Period 1962 – 1974 for South-western Canada

• 1962
  B.C.: Rails pulled from lower portion of Coquihalla section of Kettle Valley Railway.
• 1962
  West bound traffic suspended on Kettle Valley Railway’s Boundary Subdivision (between Midway, BC, and Penticton): routed over Kootenay Central trackage to Golden, BC, on CPR Mainline.
• 1962
  B.C.: Paulson Bridge completed and Bonanza/Blueberry Pass section of Crowsnest Highway opened.
• 1962
  C&W 1927 station in Trail closed and the rails retracted to Tadanac.
• 1962
  Greenwood, BC: Consolidated Woodgreen Mines Limited ceases milling operations on Deadwood properties.
• 1962 March
  British Columbia Electric and British Columbia Power Commission amalgamated to form B.C. Hydro and Power Authority.
• 1962 Mar. 6
  B.C.: At 11:30 p.m. Doukhobor dissidents dynamite pylon on eastern shore of Kootenay Lake, BC, bringing down the power lines and blacking out the East Kootenays.
• 1962 Mar. 24
  RCMP arrests 54 members of the Fraternal Council of Reformed Sons of Freedom Doukhobors and concentrated them in the Oakalla Provincial Prison in Burnaby, BC.
• 1962 May
  Wardner, BC: Graf brothers sell site of Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber Company’s No. 1 mill to Cranbrook Cartage.
• 1962 May
  Blairmore, AB: Thomas Gushul, noted photographer, dies.
• 1962 June 18
  Federal election: Diefenbaker returned as Progressive Conservative prime minister of Canada. Minority government.
• 1962 July
  B.C.: Rogers Pass section of the Trans-Canada Highway opened to traffic.
• 1962 July 1
  CP eliminates the Kettle Valley Division. The track from Penticton east is added to the Kootenay Division, from Penticton south to the Revelstoke Division, and from Penticton west to the Canyon Division.
• 1962 July 27
  B.C.: Agassiz Mountain Prison, purpose-built to house Doukhobors led by Frances Storgeoff, opened.
• 1962 Sep. 3
  Rogers Pass section of the Trans-Canada Highway officially opened by prime minister J.G. Diefenbaker.
• 1962 Sep. 22
  M.D. McEachern School in Bellevue, AB, dedicated.
• 1962 Oct. 5
  Bonanza/Blueberry Pass section of the Crowsnest Highway opened.
• 1962 Oct. 24
  Last Spike removed from the Coquihalla Section of the Kettle Valley Subdivision.
• 1962 November
  Hillcrest, AB: Hillcrest (Mission) School closed.
• 1962
  Lethbridge, AB: Record wind; 168 kmph.
• 1963
  Wardner, BC: Cranbrook Cartage abandon site of Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber Company’s No. 1 mill.
• 1963
  Castlegar, BC: Village builds a new terminal at its Airport.
• 1963
  Coleman, AB: Horace Allen School opened.
• 1963
  Coleman, AB: Cameron (West Ward) School closed.
• 1963
  Lethbridge, AB: First steps in creation of Nikka Yuko Gardens taken.
• 1963
  Lethbridge, AB: Bowman Elementary closed, bought by the City to house the civic museum.
• 1963
  Blairmore, AB: West Canadian Collieries allows the Greenhill mine to flood.
• 1963 Jan. 17
  Fernie, BC: Snow Valley ski resort officially opened.
• 1963 February
  Lundbreck, AB: Windsor Hotel Burns.
• 1963 Apr. 8
  Canadian Election: L.B. Pearson leads Liberals to minority power.
• 1963 Apr. 27
  Castlegar, BC: Old Waldie sawmill burns while being salvaged.
• 1963 May 1
  Savanna, AB: Phillips Cable Company opens its facility.
• 1963 May 7
  Tuesday.
• 1963 May 7
  Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Junior College dedicates its new building.
• 1963 June 17
  AB Election: E.C. Manning and Social Credit re-elected.
• 1963 July 8
  Federal political: Ottawa transfers responsibility for the construction of the Columbia River Treaty’s mandated infrastructure to the Province of B.C.
• 1963 Sep. 18
  Galloway, BC: Galloway Lumber Co. planer mill burns. Replaced.
• 1963 Sep. 27
  Fort Macleod, AB: Creston Sawmills Ltd. begins operating its Fort Plywood and Lumber Co. in three hangars on the air base.
• 1963 Sep. 30
  B.C. political: W.A.C. Bennett and Social Credit re-elected.
• 1963 Oct. 26
  Kelowna, B.C.: Last day of CN passenger service.
• 1963 Nov. 1
  George Brinton McClellan appointed 13th Commissioner of the RCMP (to August 14, 1967).
• 1963 Dec. 31
  AB political: Municipal District of Lethbridge dissolved.
• 1964
  Great Northern sells Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company to the Kaiser Corporation.
• 1964
  Allenby, BC: Granby Mining Company ceases magnesium casting.
• 1964
  Greenwood, BC: CPR train derails, destroying station.
• 1964
  B.C.: Governments resolve to eradicate Natal-Michel.
• 1964
  Brocket, AB: Peigan Nation Secondary School opened.
• 1964
  Burmis, AB: Operations suspended since 1956, Burmis Lumber Company folds.
• 1964
  Creston, BC: Crestbrook Timber Limited buys a large stake in Creston Sawmills.
• 1964
  West Canadian Collieries sells its Crowsnest assets to West Canadian Mineral Holdings.
• 1964 January
  B.C.: Province announces its retirement from the Okanagan Valley irrigation business.
• 1964 Jan. 1
  AB political: County of Lethbridge No. 26 erected.
• 1964 Jan. 17
  CP discontinues passenger service on its “southern mainline,” (the Kettle Valley Railway, the C&W, the C&K, the BC Southern).
• 1964 Apr. 12
  Coleman, AB: The Empire Hotel burns down. Built 1905.
• 1964 May
  Lethbridge, AB: CP gifts Montreal Locomotive Works 2-8-0 steam engine, N2A 3651, to the City.
• 1964 June 25
  B.C.: Oliver and Osoyoos Fruit Growers’ Association forms the South Okanagan Lands Irrigation District (SOLID).
• 1964 August
  Fernie, BC: “Curse” lifted by chiefs Big Crane and Red Eagle of the Ktunaxa Tobacco Plains Band in a special ceremony.
• 1964 Aug. 15
  B.C.: Kootenay Skyway portion of the Crowsnest Highway opened.
• 1964 Aug. 15
  Long sections of the Crowsnest Highway in the West Kootenays renumbered.
• 1964 Sep. 16
  Columbia River Treaty jointly signed by B.C. premier W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian prime minister Lester Bowles Pearson, and U.S. president Lyndon Baines Johnson.
• 1964 Oct. 6
  Sparwood, BC: Incorporated as a Village.
• 1964 Oct. 31
  Greenwood, B.C.: Anaconda smelter, idle for nearly 45 years, burned.
• 1964 Nov. 10
  Emil Sick dies.
• 1964 Nov. 24
  B.C.: Village of Nakusp incorporated.
• 1964 Dec. 31
  U.S. deregulates the price of gold.
• 1965
  B.C.: Richter Pass section of Crowsnest Highway opened.
• 1965
  Castlegar, BC: Kinnaird Bridge completed.
• 1965
  Nelson, BC: City buys the lakefront airstrip.
• 1965
  Brocket, AB: St. Cyprian’s Residential School on the Piikani reserve closed.
• 1965
  B.C.: Crestbrook Timber Limited and Creston Sawmills amalgamate.
• 1965
  Castlegar, BC: Keenleyside Dam on Columbia River completed.
• 1965
  Frank, AB: Universal Reel and Recycling, Inc., founded as R&R Lumber Supplies.
• 1965
  AB: C.S.D. Coal Company, Limited, begins working the Diamond mine in the far north-east corner of the Lethbridge field.
• 1965 January
  Shaughnessy, AB: Workers walk out of Galt No. 10.
• 1965 Jan. 1
  Hope, BC: Incorporated as a Town.
• 1965 Jan. 9
  B.C.: Just before 0700 hours, Mount Outram slide buries the Crowsnest Highway in the Sunshine Valley, BC.
• 1965 Feb. 4
  Shaughnessy, AB: Lethbridge Collieries, limited, closes Galt No. 10.
• 1965 June
  Crestbrook Timber, Creston Sawmills and Pawluk Brothers’ Lumber Company amalgamated under Crestbrook banner.
• 1965 April?
  Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company renamed Crow’s Nest Industries, Limited.
• 1965 May 4
  B.C.: Great Northern incorporated the Kootenay and Elk Railway Company.
• 1965 Oct. 25
  (? date) Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company becomes Crow’s Nest Industries Limited.
• 1965 Nov. 8
  Pearson returned as Liberal prime minister of Canada. Minority.
• 1966
  B.C.: Provincial government buy-out of Michel and Natal residents begins.
• 1966
  Wardner, BC: CP salvages station.
• 1966
  Princeton, BC: Granby Mining Company begins redevelopment of Copper Mountain.
• 1966
  Procter, BC: Outlet Hotel demolished.
• 1966
  Brocket, AB: Sacred Heart Residential School closed on Piikani reserve.
• 1966
  Lethbridge, AB: “Stubb” Ross organized Time Air.
• 1966
  Lethbridge, AB: Opera House of 1890 demolished.
• 1966
  Kimberley, BC: Selkirk Senior Secondary School expanded.
• 1966
  Elko, BC: Crabb family opens the “3 & 93 Dairy Bar.”
• 1966
  Cowley, AB: CPR removes its old station/shed.
• 1966 January
  B.C.: CP receives permission to abandon the Rossland–Warfield reach of the C&W.
• 1966 Jan. 1
  Castlegar, BC: Incorporated as a Town.
• 1966 Jan. 1
  Creston, BC: Incorporated as a Town.
• 1966 Jan. 6
  AB political: John Walter Grant MacEwan appointed lieutenant-governor (to July 2nd, 1974).
• 1966 Feb. 22
  B.C.: District of Kootenay Boundary was incorporated.
• 1966 May 12
  B.C.: District of Sparwood incorporated.
• 1966 May 16
  Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company officially adopts the name “COMINCO.”
• 1966 June 21
  Bull River, BC: Trout hatchery opened.
• 1966 July
  B.C.: CP strips steel from Warfield–Rossland reach of C&W.
• 1966 September
  BC Hydro absorbs East Kootenay Power.
• 1966 Sep. 12
  B.C. political: W.A.C. Bennett and Social Credit re-elected.
• 1966 Nov. 1
  B.C.: Cominco shuts down HB mine operations.
• 1966 Dec. 31
  AB: Crowsnest Pass School Division #63 created from the amalgamation of five local districts.
• 1967
  Keremeos, BC: Clarke and Armstrong packinghouse destroyed by fire.
• 1967
  Lethbridge, AB: Department of Transport buys Kenyon Field.
• 1967
  Lethbridge, AB: Old Galt Hospital re-opened as Sir Alexander Galt Museum.
• 1967
  Lethbridge, AB: Air Canada withdraws service.
• 1967
  Lethbridge, AB: Fort Whoop-up interpretive centre opened.
• 1967
  Lethbridge, AB: University of Lethbridge established.
• 1967 January
  Canadian Pacific Gas & Oil’s Fording Coal Limited began developing a pair of strip mines at Fording River, BC.
• 1967 Jan. 31
  Fort Macleod, AB: CPR station burns completely.
• 1967 April
  AB: F.J. Harquail of Coleman Collieries, Limited, finalized a long-term contract to supply coal to Japan.
• 1967 April
  B.C. Hydro merges East Kootenay Power into its corporate body.
• 1967 Apr. 3
  Monday
• 1967 Apr. 3
  Natal, BC: 3:59 pm. Fifteen of 32 man shift die in Crowsnest Industry Limited’s Balmer North mine. Ten hurt.
• 1967 May 1
  B.C.: Crestbrook Lumber Company becomes Crestbrook Forest Industries.
• 1967 May 1
  AB: Begins a Snowstorm that paralyses southern Alberta for three days.
• 1967 May 23
  Alberta election: E.C. Manning and Social Credit re-elected.
• 1967 May 25
  Midway, BC: Incorporated as a Village.
• 1967 June 22
  Fort Steele, BC: Site dedicated as a provincial Heritage Park under the auspices of the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing.
• 1967 June 30
  Oliver, BC: Weyerhaeuser closes its sawmill.
• 1967 July 16
  Lethbridge, AB: Nikka Yuko Centennial Gardens dedicated.
• 1967 Aug. 5
  Kinnaird, BC: Incorporated as a Town.
• 1967 Aug. 15
  Federal political: Malcolm Francis Aylesworth Lindsay appointed 14th Commissioner of the RCMP (to September 30, 1969).
• 1967 Nov. 8
  Lethbridge, AB: Crowsnest Highway bridge over the Oldman dedicated.
• 1967 December
  Princeton, BC: Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada, Limited, buys out Granby Mining’s interests on Copper Mountain.
• 1967 Dec. 29
  Waldo, BC: Postal bureau closes.
• 1967 Dec. 31
  AB political: Harry Edwin Strom replaces Manning as SoCred premier of Alberta.
• 1968
  B.C.: Crowsnest Highway from Creston to Curzon realigned.
• 1968
  Sparwood, BC: Community founded by Kaiser Corporation; 1.5 miles of CP’s Fording River Subdivision built to Kaiser’s Elkview Mine north of Sparwood.
• 1968
  Elko, BC: Crow’s Nest Industries completes sawmill plant.
• 1968
  Burmis, AB: H. Rinke buys the old Burmis Lumber Company site.
• 1968
  Burmis, AB: Postal bureau closed.
• 1968
  Federal political: National Indian Brotherhood organized in Canada.
• 1968
  AB: administration of the Lethbridge Northern Irrigation Districts reverts to the water users from the provincial government.
• 1968
  Federal political: Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump declared an National Historic Site.
• 1968
  Cranbrook, BC: New hospital opens.
• 1968
  Cranbrook, BC: Runway laid out for new airport nearby.
• 1968
  Canadian Pacific Railway renames itself “CP Rail.”
• 1968 January
  Kaiser Coal Limited agrees to supply Mitsubishi Trading Company, et al with 40 million tons of pulverized coal over a 15 year period beginning in 1970.
• 1968 Jan. 2
  Fort Macleod, AB: General Coach & Trailer plant in hangars on the old airbase boins to the ground.
• 1968 Feb. 29
  Kaiser Coal Limited bought the entire coal holdings of Crow’s Nest Industries.
• 1968 Apr. 20
  Federal political: Pierre Elliott Trudeau succeeds as Liberal prime minister.
• 1968 June 25
  Federal election: Trudeau leads Liberals to majority re-election.
• 1968 July 2
  Roberts Bank, BC: Work commences on Westshore Terminals coal-loading project.
• 1968 July 13
  B.C.: Airport midway between Kimberley and Cranbrook officially opened.
• 1968 Aug. 1
  B.C.: Minto, in danger of being refloated by the rising Arrowhead Lakes, is burned by B.C. Hydro.
• 1968 Sep. 27
  AB political: Ernest Manning retires as premier of Alberta.
• 1968 Oct. 28
  Keremeos, BC: Keremeos Co-operative Growers Association opens packing house.
• 1968 Oct. 30
  Newgate, BC: Postal bureau closes.
• 1968 Oct. 31
  Baynes Lake, BC: Post office closes.
• 1968 Nov. 28
  Middleton, BC: Two die when mine dump between Michel and Natal slumps onto Highway 3.
• 1968 December
  B.C. Hydro buys Crow’s Nest Industries’ power distribution system in Sparwood and the Michel valley.
• 1968 Dec. 21
  Elko, B.C.: Crow’s Nest Industries opens new saw mill.
• 1968 Dec. 23
  Newmont Mining Company Limited buys the Ingerbelle group of claims near Princeton, B.C., for $1.5 million.
• 1969
  Japanese sign long term contract for Elk River coal.
• 1969
  Grand Forks, BC: Pope & Talbot buys Grand Forks Saw Mill Limited.
• 1969
  Skookumchuk, BC: Crestbrook Forest Industries complete new pulp mill.
• 1969
  Yahk, BC: community hall burns.
• 1969
  AB: C.S.D. Coal Company, Limited, ceases working the Diamond. Last mine in the Lethbridge field.
• 1969 Jan. 1
  B.C.: Marysville, Chapman Camp and the City of Kimberley amalgamate under the banner of Kimberley.
• 1969 February
  Calgary Power abandons the Sentinal power plant at Crowsnest Lake, AB.
• 1969 Jan. 29
  Allenby, BC: old Granby Consolidated’s concentrator building burned.
• 1969 June 19
  Michel, BC: Three die in a flood underground in Balmer South mine.
• 1969 Aug. 29
  B.C. electiion: W.A.C. Bennett and Social Credit re-elected.
• 1969 Sep. 5
  Lethbridge, AB: Sod-turning for U of L “University Hall” on the “Campus in the Coulees.”
• 1969 Oct. 1
  Federal political: William Leonard Higgitt appointed 15th Commissioner of the RCMP (to December 28, 1973).
• 1970
  Hope, BC: CPR abandons left bank of Fraser, strips bridge of rails.
• 1970
  Crowsnest, BC: Canada Post closes bureau.
• 1970
  Greenwood, BC: Leon Lotzkar offers Anaconda smelter site to the City. Accepted.
• 1970
  Grand Forks, BC: New airport completed.
• 1970
  Lethbridge, AB: Marathon Realty announces CP’s intention of removing its rail yards.
• 1970
  Federal political: Laws changed to allow alcohol on Indian Reserves for the first time.
• 1970
  Cranbrook, BC: CP built bridge at Fort Steele to connect the BC Southern to the Kootenay Central and abandoned the original BCS alignment between Colvali and North Star Junction nearby.
• 1970
  Burmis, AB: CP salvages its station.
• 1970
  Burmis, AB: St. Stanisla Kotska’s RC Church demolished.
• 1970 Jan. 1
  Interior Breweries Company begins reorganizing.
• 1970 Feb. 23
  First CN unit coal train arrives at Neptune Terminals in North Vancouver from Luscar, Alberta.
• 1970 Mar. 2
  Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and Spokane, Portland and Seattle combined into Burlington Northern Railroad.
• 1970 Mar. 16
  B.C.: First CP coal train leaves Crowsnest for Neptune Terminals in Burrard Inlet.
• 1970 Apr. 28
  B.C.: First CP unit coal train over Kootenay Central to Roberts Bank.
• 1970 Apr. 30
  Roberts Bank, BC: First CP unit coal train arrives.
• 1970 May 4
  Roberts Bank, BC: First coal vessel, the Snow White, leaves for Japan with first shipment.
• 1970 June
  Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada, Limited, undertook to spend $75 million to redevelop Copper Mountain mines.
• 1970 June
  Sparwood, BC: CP begins construction on the 54 km reach of trackage up the Elk River to Fording River.
• 1970 June 15
  Roberts Bank, BC: Westshore Terminals coal handling facility officially opened by B.C. premier W.A.C. Bennett and Canadian prime minister P.E. Trudeau.
• 1970 June 21
  Natal, BC: Last parade.
• 1970 July
  B.C. Hydro assumes responsibility for power distribution in Kimberley, Fernie and Cranbrook.
• 1970 September
  Greenwood, BC: Aabro Mining and Oils Limited begins operating it concentration mill on its Deadwood (Mother Lode, Greyhound, Sunset) claims.
• 1970 September
  Coleman, AB: Thomas Holstead dies and the Coleman Journal ceases publication.
• 1970 September
  Coleman, AB: Crowsnest Comprehensive High School opened.
• 1971
  Michel, BC: Mining suspended permanently.
• 1971
  B.C.: CP completes Sparwood-Fording River branch in the Elk River’s valley.
• 1971
  Castlegar, BC: Volunteers begin construction the village of the Doukhobor Village Museum.
• 1971
  B.C.: Residential school at St. Eugene’s Mission closed.
• 1971
  B.C.: Crowsnest Highway re-aligned from Cranbrook to Elko.
• 1971
  Kimberley, BC: Old core of Selkirk Senior Secondary School burns.
• 1971
  Norcen Energy acquires Colamn Collieries, Limited, and Hillcrest-Mohawk Collieries.
• 1971
  B.C. Hydro begins Kootenay Canal project on Lower Kootenay River.
• 1971
  Riondel, BC: Cominco closed the Bluebell mine.
• 1971
  Castlegar, BC: New terminal building at airport.
• 1971
  Cowley, AB: CPR removes its 1910 station.
• 1971
  Elko, BC: Don Mazur Lumber Company begins operations (until 1976).
• 1971
  Last run of the “Dayliner” along the Aldersyde sub. between Lethbridge, Vulcan and Calgary.
• 1971 May 14
  Fort Macleod, AB: Old federal courthouse (1902) closes. Becomes Town Hall.
• 1971 July 16
  B.C.: District of Elkford incorporated.
• 1971 July 17
  Federal political: Canadian Transport Commission permits the CPR to cease all passenger services south of the mainline in Alberta.
• 1971 Aug. 30
  AB election: Edgar Peter Lougheed leads Progressive Conservatives to power.
• 1971 June 29
  Cranbrook, BC: Post Office tower demolished.
• 1971 Sep. 1
  Salmo, BC: Canex ceases operations at Jersey nearby.
• 1971 Sep. 4
  Saturday.
• 1971 Sep. 4
  Fernie, BC: Canada’s first Senator of Indian ancestry, James Gladstone, dies.
• 1971 Dec. 31
  AB: CP amalgamates its Lethbridge and Medicine Hat divisions into the Calgary-headquartered Alberta South Divison.
• 1972
  Cranbrook, BC: The City and Ducks Unlimited designate Elizabeth Lake a protected wildlife sanctuary.
• 1972
  Bridesville, BC: Franks’ store burns. Not replaced.
• 1972
  Elkford, BC: CP completes Fording River Subdivision north to Fording open pit mine.
• 1972
  B.C.: Byron Creek Collieries buys Coal Mountain.
• 1972
  Galloway, BC: Creosote tanks at Galloway Lumber catch fire.
• 1972
  Creston, BC: Interior Breweries Company moved headquarters to Vancouver.
• 1972
  Vancouver, BC: Cheap imports drive Cominco to close its steel mill. Recovery of iron at Chapman mill suspended.
• 1972
  Japanese interests buy into Crestbrook Forest Industries.
• 1972
  Resources Service Group acquires West Canadian Mineral Holdings and its Crowsnest assets.
• 1972 Spring
  B.C.: Floods wash out Burlington Northern’s bridges in Similkameen, CP’s Carmi Subdivision bridges on Kettle River.
• 1972 Mar. 29
  Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada, Limited, brings Copper Mountain concentrator on line.
• 1972 Apr. 1
  Pacific Great Eastern Railway renamed the British Columbia Railway.
• 1972 May 31
  Peak of spring floods in Princeton.
• 1972 May 31
  CP ceases tug and barge service on Okanagan Lake.
• 1972 June
  Nelson officially opens the Norman Stibbs Airport.
• 1972 June 7
  CP completes laying rail on old Eastern BC right-of-way.
• 1972 Aug. 4
  CP begins rail operations on the former EBC line to Coal Mountain.
• 1972 Aug. 30
  B.C. political: 30th General Election.
• 1972 Sep. 15
  B.C. political: Dave Barrett and New Democratic Party installed.
• 1972 Sep. 29, 30
  Jersey, B.C.: The community auctioned off piece-meal.
• 1972 Nov. 30
  Trudeau leads Liberals to re-election in Ottawa. Minority.
• 1973
  CP suspends service from Beaverdell, BC, to Penticton on the Carmi Subdivision.
• 1973
  Kimberley, B.C.: City adopts “Bavarian” theme.
• 1973
  Norcen Energy contracts Mannix Company’s Loram Group to mine Tent Mountain deposits.
• 1973
  Rossland, B.C.: CP closes and removes station.
• 1973
  Brocket, AB.: CP closes and removes station.
• 1973
  Treaty 7 nations awarded $250,000 for ammunition payments suspended since the 1880’s.
• 1973 Feb. 15
  B.C.: CN suspends tug and barge service on Lake Okanagan.
• 1973 April
  GN does some grading work on the Kootenay and Elk Railway right-of-way in south-eastern BC.
• 1973 May
  Burmis, AB: Rinke and Sons Lumber Company formed to operate a mill.
• 1973 June
  B.C.: Scenes of the “The National Dream” filmed on the Myra Canyon trackage of the Carmi Subdivision.
• 1973 July 10
  Lethbridge, AB: Record hottest day: 39.4ºC.
• 1973 July 10
  Lethbridge, AB: Palliser Distillers opens plant.
• 1973 Oct. 7
  Keremeos, BC: The South Similkameen Museum Society opens its museum. Constable W.B. Stewart, retired, of the BCPP, officiating.