| 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 [sic] 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/i> 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.” |
