Period 2010 - 2016 - Crowsnest Highway

Period 2010 – 2016 for South-western Canada

2010 May 11
Alberta political: Tuesday. Retired colonel Donald Stewart Ethell sworn in as Alberta’s 17th lieutenant-governor, replacing Norman Kwong.
2010 Cranbrook, B.C.: Tember shuts down planer mill. Only lumber kilns in operation, sawmill idle since 1998.
2010 June 13
Oliver, B.C.: Sunday. An old irrigation dam built on Testalinden Creek failed, sending a torrent of liquid mud down the creek bed to impound against the berm of the Okanagan River, flooding Hwy. 97, destroying five homes, and affecting many properties. No casualties.
2010 June 17
Blood Indian Reserve No. 148, Alberta: The council declares a state of emergency as torrential rains and melted mountain snow combine to push the Belly River well beyond its banks.
2010 June 18
Alberta: The counties of Lethbridge and Cardston declare states of ememgency due to the flooding of Lee Creek and other watersheds.
2010 June 18
Coaldale, Alberta: The Town declares state of emergency due to the incessant rains of the previous few days.
2012 May
Cranbrook, B.C.: Tembec extinguishes the last of its lumber kilns.
2012 Oct. 14
Oyen, AB.: Gordon Lindsay Wilson (January 9th, 1923) dies. A grand old man has left the country.
2012 Nov. 2
Victoria, B.C.: Judith Guichon sworn in as Lieutenant-Governor of B.C.
2012 Nov. 2
Cranbrook, B.C.: Idle since 2010, the Tembec Mill, the successor to Cranbrook Sash and Door, burns.
2013 Dec. 7
Oyen, AB.: Mehalena “Lena” Wilson née Zawatsky (Feb. 23, 1920) dies.
2016 May 19
Regina, SK: My good friend Kenneth Wayne Moritz (July 6, 1949) died. Free from the Earthlings at last.