| 1974 | | Cranbrook, BC: Terminal completed at East Kootenay Airport nearby. |
| 1974 | | Federal political: Office of Native Claims established to arbistrate land disputes, etc. |
| 1974 | | Lethbridge, AB: New library completed. |
| 1974 | Jan. 1 | B.C.: Town of Castlegar absorbs the Village of Kinnaird. |
| 1974 | Jan. 1 | Federal political: Maurice Jean Nadon appointed 17th Commissioner of the RCMP (to August 31, 1977). |
| 1974 | Jan. 26 | Blairmore, AB: Senior Centre at old hospital opened. |
| 1974 | Mar. 1 | Castlegar, BC: Incorporated as a City. |
| 1974 | | Lethbridge, AB: City sells power plant to Calgary Power. |
| 1974 | June | Fernie, BC: New hospital opens. |
| 1974 | July 1 | Princeton, BC: Frank Lees opens first stage of his Princeton Castle project. |
| 1974 | July 2 | AB political: Ralph Gavin Steinhauer appointed lieutenant-governor (to October 18th, 1979). |
| 1974 | July 4 | Labatt Breweries of British Columbia Limited acquired control of Interior Breweries Company. |
| 1974 | July 8 | Federal election: Trudeau leads Liberals to re-election. Majority. |
| 1975 | | Fernie, BC: Memorial Hospital demolished. |
| 1975 | | Coleman, AB: Norcen Energy completes modernization of Coleman Collieries’ Vicary mine. |
| 1975 | | Lethbridge, AB: Parrish & Heimbecker buy out Ellison Milling Co. |
| 1975 | | Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Centre opens. |
| 1975 | | Kimberley, BC: The “Platzl,” the downtown pedestrian mall, completed. |
| 1975 | Jan. 9 | Princeton, BC: CPR closes station. |
| 1975 | Feb. 5 | Crowsnest Pass, AB: alarming earth tremor. |
| 1975 | Feb. 7 | Lethbridge, AB: New 6th Avenue (Whoop-Up Drive) bridge dedicated. |
| 1975 | Mar. 26 | AB election: E. Peter Lougheed and PCs returned. |
| 1975 | June 20 | CP condemns the remainder of its Fairbanks-Morse fleet of locomotives. |
| 1975 | Aug. 24 | MT: Libby Dam on upper Kootenay River dedicated. Corps of Army Engineers. Lake Koocanusa forming. |
| 1975 | September | Lower Kootenay River, BC: B.C. Hydro brings first generators at Kootenay Canal on line. |
| 1975 | Nov. 10 | ON: The iron ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior. |
| 1975 | Dec. 22 | B.C. political: William Richards Bennett leads Social Credit to power. |
| 1976 | | Castlegar, BC: B.C. Hydro completes Kootenay Canal project nearby. |
| 1976 | | Bellevue, AB: sewerage system installed and water system extended to the suburb of Maple Leaf. |
| 1976 | | Lethbridge, AB: Old Carngie Library building re-opened as civic art gallery, now Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG). |
| 1976 | | Lethbridge, AB: Old Galt Hospital designated a Provincial Historic Resource. |
| 1976 | Jan. 1 | AB: Lethbridge Collieries, Ltd., disolved. |
| 1976 | Mar. 1 | Lethbridge, AB: County of Lethbridge No. 26 Building opened. |
| 1976 | Oct. 2 | B.C.: Crowsnest Highway’s Bonnington cut-off—Castlegar to 3B—officially opened. |
| 1977 | | B.C.: the Michel-Natal site levelled and abandoned. |
| 1977 | | Blairmore, AB,: first stores in the Crowsnest Mall opened. |
| 1977 | | Bellevue, AB: new fire hall completed. |
| 1977 | | Galloway, BC: Galloway Lumber modernizes its operations. |
| 1977 | Feb. 28 | Federal political: VIA Rail created. |
| 1977 | July | Oliver, BC: Last train passes; the British Columbia Provincial Museum’s “Museum Train.” |
| 1977 | Sep. 1 | Federal political: Robert Henry Simmonds appointed 18th Commissioner of the RCMP (to August 31, 1987). |
| 1977 | Oct. 7 | Morrissey, Fernie and Michel Railway Company dissolved. |
| 1977 | Dec. 16 | Kootenay Lake, BC: CP cancels Kootenay Water Transport Company tug contract and the Melinda Jane retires from barge service. |
| 1978 | | B.C.: Weyerhaeuser buys Okanagan Falls lumber mill. |
| 1978 | | Middleton, BC: Michel Valley school demolished. |
| 1978 | | AB: Historic Sites of Alberta assumes responsibility for the site of Lille. |
| 1978 | | AB: CPR abandons Cardston–Glenwood, and Kimball–Whiskey Gap lines. |
| 1978 | | Coleman, AB: Norcen Energy closes Coleman Collieries’ strip mine at Racehorse Creek nearby. |
| 1978 | | Trail, BC: Kootenay Hotel formerly Fritz Sick’s Kootenay Malting, Brewing and Distilling Company building, burned. |
| 1978 | | Phœnix Mountain, BC: Granby Mining Company ceases its crushing concentration operation. |
| 1978 | | B.C.: Shell Canada, Limited, buys remains of Crow’s Nest Industries. |
| 1978 | | Nelson, BC: Heritage Conservation Branch of the provincial Ministry of Recreation and Conservation begins to evaluate the heritage value of City’s core. |
| 1978 | | Sparwood, BC: The Titan 33-19, finished by GM Canada in 1974, arrives at Kaiser’s Harmer Ridge mine. |
| 1978 | Feb. 11 | B.C.: Pacific Western Airlines’ Flight 314 crash-lands at East Kootenay Airport near Cranbrook. |
| 1978 | Apr. 29 | Frank, AB. Frank Slide recognized as a National Historic Site. |
| 1978 | Jun. 2 | Regina, SK: Edith Winifred Wilson (née Pope) dies. Thirty-six years a wife, nearly 30 years a mother. “A truly loving person.” |
| 1978 | Jun. 21 | AB political: Vote on amalgamation held in the communities in Crowsnest Pass area. |
| 1978 | July 20 | Okanagan Falls, BC: CP given permission to abandon Osoyoos Subdivision nearby. Rails removed the following summer. |
| 1978 | Sep. 27 | Princeton, BC: Weyerhaeuser takes over Northwood Mills’ operation. |
| 1978 | Oct. 1 | Crow’s Nest Industries Limited amalgamated into Shell Canada Limited as Crowsnest Forest Products, Limited. |
| 1978 | Oct. 4 | Princeton, BC: Incorporated as a Town. David Brown, mayor. |
| 1978 | Oct. 14 | Sparwood, BC: Hospital opened. |
| 1978 | Dec. 1 | Lethbridge, AB: City annexes Hardieville. |
| 1978 | Dec. 28 | Crows Nest Industries, Limited, and Crow’s Nest Pass Oil and Gas Company, Limited, amalgamate. |
| 1978 | Dec. 29 | Friday. |
| 1978 | Dec. 29 | Michel, BC: Hospital demolished by burning. |
| 1979 | | Castlegar, BC: B.C. Timber, part of B.C. Resources Investment Corporation, buys the Celanese Corporation’s pulp mill. |
| 1979 | | Crowsnest, AB: Norcen Energy closes Coleman Collieries’ Vicary mine. |
| 1979 | Jan. 1 | The Town of Coleman, of Blairmore, the Village of Bellevue and of Frank, and Improvement District No. 5 were collected into the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass. |
| 1979 | Jan. 1 | Coalhurst, AB: The Hamlet once again incorporated as a Village. |
| 1979 | Jan. 26 | B.C.: CP given permission to abandon Carmi Subdivision between Midway and Penticton. Rails removed that summer. |
| 1979 | Mar. 14 | AB political: Peter Lougheed and PCs returned to power. |
| 1979 | May 10 | B.C. political: Bill Bennett and Social Credit returned to office in B.C. |
| 1979 | May 22 | Federal election: Charles Joseph Clark leads Progressive Conservatives to minority power in Ottawa. |
| 1979 | Aug. 8 | Kimberley, BC: A conflagration on North Star Hill manaces the City. |
| 1979 | Oct. 18 | AB political: Francis Charles Lynch-Staunton appointed lieutenant-governor (to January 22nd 1985). |
| 1979 | Oct. 19 | Lethbridge, AB: New terminal building at Kenyon Field dedicated. |
| 1979 | Dec. 13 | Federal political: Joe Clark’s minority federal government loses non-confidence vote. |
| 1980 | | B.C.: Osoyoos Oxbow Fish and Wildlife Reserve established. |
| 1980 | | Elko, BC: B.C. Forestry Branch closes 1940s ranger station and concentrates staff in Cranbrook. |
| 1980 | | Tent Mountain, AB: Norcen Energy suspends operations at Coleman Collieries, Limited’s strip mine. |
| 1980 | | B.C. Hydro completes Seven Mile Dam on the Pend d’Oreille River. |
| 1980 | Feb. 18 | Federal election: Trudeau leads Liberals to federal power in Ottawa. |
| 1980 | Spring | Mountain Pine beetles arrive on southern Alberta’s “eastern slopes.” |
| 1980 | July 12 | B.C.: Kaiser Resources Limited opened its new headquarters building on the Natal townsite. |
| 1980 | September | B.C. Resources Investment Corporation buys Kaiser Resources. |
| 1980 | Dec. 9 | Princeton, BC: Princeton Secondary School opens. |
| 1981 | | Keremeos, BC: Growers’ Association closed its packing plant. |
| 1981 | | Castlegar, BC: The Town buys Zuckerberg Island as a civic park. |
| 1981 | | Kipp, AB: Construction of new CP rail yards commenced. |
| 1981 | | Blairmore, AB: Western Canada Coal’s manager’s amnsion, “Charbonnier House,” and the foreman’s cottage, “Green House,” are demolished to allow construction of the Provincial Building. |
| 1981 | | Rosebery, BC: CP retracts Nakusp and Slocan trackage from Denver Canyon station. |
| 1981 | | Yahk, BC: Private museum closes and most of the artefacts transferrd to Creston, BC. |
| 1981 | | AB: UNESCO designates Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump a World Heritage Site. |
| 1981 | | Cowley, AB: Johnson Brothers’ lumber mill shuts down. |
| 1981 | | Kimberley, BC: New library/museum building completed on the Platzl. |
| 1981 | March | Fort Macleod, AB: Town Council requests that Alberta’s Ministry of Culture declare Main Street an Historic Area. |
| 1981 | Sep. 26 | Saturday. |
| 1981 | Sep. 26 | B.C.: The McPhee Bridge over the St. Mary’s River near Wycliffe on highway 95A, is opened. |
| 1981 | November | Creston, BC: Crestbrook Forest Industries halts operations at the old Rodger’s saw mill. Only the veneer plant survives. |
| 1982 | | Sparwood, BC: Line Creek and Greenhills open-cast mines begun north of town. |
| 1982 | | Creston, BC: The CPR closes its station. |
| 1982 | | Creston, BC: The Creston Historical Society buys “the Stone House,” eventually converting it into a museum, archives repository. |
| 1982 | | Yahk, BC: Great Northern demolishes its station. |
| 1982 | | Assembly of First Nations supercedes the National Indian Brotherhood. |
| 1982 | March | Kimberley, BC: Gerry Sorensen Way christened. |
| 1982 | June 26 | AB: CPR train wreck near Lundbreck Falls. |
| 1982 | Nov. 2 | AB election: Lougheed and PCs returned to power. |
| 1982 | Nov. 18 | Nelson, BC: Westar Timber closes the last saw mill on the waterfront. |
| 1982 | Dec. 28 | (See July 27th, 1983) B.C.: Crows Nest Industries Limited (formerly Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company) dissolved. |
| 1983 | | Cranbrook, BC, builds replica of its demolished Post Office tower. |
| 1983 | | Crestbrook Forest Industries buys Crow’s Nest Industries from Shell Resources. |
| 1983 | | Blairmore, AB: The Crowsnest Pass Provincial Building completed. |
| 1983 | | Jaffray, BC: Jehovah’s Witnesses build new Kingdom Hall. |
| 1983 | | Lethbridge, AB: New YWCA completed. |
| 1983 | | Elko, BC: Regional District of East Kootenay drilled a community drinking-water well and laid a distribution system. |
| 1983 | | Cranbrook, BC: Central School decommissioned and sold to Crestbrook Forest Industries. |
| 1983 | Apr. 30 | Coalhurst, AB: Former CP rail station burned as an emergency exercise. |
| 1983 | May 5 | B.C. political: Bill Bennett and SoCreds returned to office. |
| 1983 | June 30 | Osoyoos, BC: Incorporated as a Town. |
| 1983 | July 14 | Blairmore, AB: Last session in the old Courthouse. |
| 1983 | July 27 | (See Dec. 28th, 1982) B.C.: Crow’s Nest Industries Limited dissolved. |
| 1983 | July 29 | B.C.: British Columbia Historical Association becomes British Columbia Historical Federation. |
| 1983 | Sep. 10 | Passburg, AB: Dedication of the Leitch Collieries Interpretive Centre. |
| 1983 | Sep. 16 | Kipp, AB: Rail yards completed. |
| 1983 | Oct. 28 | Coleman, AB: Coleman Collieries Limited shuts down the last of its operations: the coal cleaning plant. |
| 1984 | | Castlegar, BC: 44th Field Engineer Squadron completes pedestrian suspension bridge to Zuckerberg Island. |
| 1984 | | Bellevue, AB: Wayside Chapel moved in from the abandoned site of Passburg. |
| 1984 | | Kimberley, BC: Narrow-gauged tourist railway completed. |
| 1984 | | Lethbridge, AB: Addition to Galt Museum complete. |
| 1984 | Jan. 1 | Federal political: “Crow Rate” abolished by the federal government. |
| 1984 | May 14 | AB: Alberta Ministry of Culture declared Fort Macleod’s core a Provincial Historic Area. |
| 1984 | June 30 | Federal political: John Napier Turner succeeds Trudeau as Liberal prime minister of Canada. |
| 1984 | July 26 | Lethbridge, AB: First train around the new rail re-alignment downtown. |
| 1984 | Sep. 4 | Federal election: Martin Brian Mulroney leads Progressive Conservatives to power in Ottawa. |
| 1984 | Oct. 19 | Walter Grant Notley, the sole NDP representative in the Alberta Legislature, dies in an air carash. |
| 1985 | | Castlegar, BC: Two original dormitories at the Doukhobor Museum torched. |
| 1985 | | Coleman, AB: The Crowsnest Historical Society acquired Coleman High School building for use as a museum. |
| 1985 | | Cowley, AB: Cowley Forest Products commences operations. |
| 1985 | | Lethbridge, AB: Replica of Fort Whoop-up opened in Indian Battle Park. |
| 1985 | Jan. 22 | AB political: Wilma Helen Hunley appointed lieutenant-governor. (to March 11th, 1991). |
| 1985 | Apr. 28 | Frank, AB: Frank Slide Interpretive Centre opened. |
| 1985 | May 11 | Cranbrook, BC: Crestbrook Forest Industries moves its headquarters into the renovated Central School building, a Heritage site. |
| 1985 | May 21 | Savanna, AB: Phillips Cable Company ceases operations in its plant. |
| 1985 | June 28 | Federal political: Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Indian Act becomes law. |
| 1985 | Summer | B.C.: Wild fires ravage the Rocky Mountain Trench. |
| 1985 | Aug. 8 | B.C.: Kootenay and Elk Railway Company struck from B.C.’s Register of Companies. |
| 1985 | Sep. 23 | Lethbridge, AB: Indian Battle Park rededicated. |
| 1985 | Nov. 1 | AB political: Donald Ross Getty replaces Lougheed as PC premier. |
| 1986 | | Cominco sells its share of the Line Creek operation in the Elk River valley to its parent, the CPR. |
| 1986 | | Blairmore, AB: Sleepee Teepee Motel demolished. |
| 1986 | | Blairmore, AB: Two year-long clean up of the Greenhill mine slack piles begins. |
| 1986 | | Blairmore, AB: CPR salvages its station building. |
| 1986 | Feb. 28 | Westar Mining Limited (formerly the B.C. Coal Division of the B.C. Resources Investment Corporation) closes the Balmer North mine at Michel. |
| 1986 | May 8 | Alberta Election: Don Getty and PCs returned to power. |
| 1986 | June | Cominco offers West Kootenay Power for sale. |
| 1986 | Aug. 6 | B.C. political: W.R. Bennett resigns as premier and replaced by Wilhelmus Nicholaas Theodore Maria Vander Zalm, Jr. |
| 1986 | Sep. 2 | CP divests itself of its 52.5% holding in Cominco. Teck Corp., the buyer, sells 14.25 million shares to public for $13.50 ea. |
| 1986 | Oct. 22 | B.C. political: Bill Vander Zalm leads Social Credit to re-election. |
| 1987 | | Cranbrook, BC: CP moves its regional headquarters from Nelson. |
| 1987 | | Castlegar, BC: City purchases CP station building for a museum. |
| 1987 | | Jaffray, BC: New Mormon chapel completed. |
| 1987 | | Fernie, BC: City acquired CP station and converts it to the “Arts Station.” |
| 1987 | | Kimberley, BC: Cominco closes the fertilizer plant. |
| 1987 | | Lethbridge, AB: Chinook Health Region administration occupies old CPR station. |
| 1987 | | Elko, BC: School closed. Students bussed to Jaffray since. |
| 1987 | July | B.C.: Utilities Commission condones Cominco’s sale of West Kootenay Power to Kansas City-based UtiliCorp (UtiliCorp Networks Canada) for $80 million. |
| 1987 | July 10 | Cranbrook, BC: Elko’s train station settled onto new foundations at the Museum of Rail Travel. |
| 1987 | Summer | AB: Head-Smashed-In interpretative centre opened. |
| 1987 | July 31 | Edmonton, AB: Tornadoes kill 27. |
| 1987 | Aug. 17 | Hedley, BC: Premier Vander Zalm officates at the opening of the Mascot Gold Mining Company’s Nickel Plate open pit mine. |
| 1987 | Aug. 28 | Blairmore, AB: Health Care Centre inaugurated. |
| 1987 | Sep. 1 | Federal political: Normand David Inkster appointed 19th Commissioner of the RCMP (to June 24, 1994). |
| 1987 | Oct. 19 | Black Monday on Stock Markets. |
| 1987 | Nov. 1 | Winnipeg, MB: At its inaugural convention, the Reform Party of Canada elects E. Preston Manning as its first leader. |
| 1988 | | Castlegar, BC: Traffic ferry discontinued. |
| 1988 | | Kaslo, BC: Moyie museum declared an National Historic Site. |
| 1988 | | B.C.: CP service between Grand Forks and Midway suspended. |
| 1988 | | B.C.: CP revenue service between Grand Forks and Castlegar suspended. Only mill switchers sent to Grand Forks thereafter. |
| 1988 | | Trail, BC: Teck Corporation heightened and modernized the smelter’s stacks, installing new scrubbers, filters. |
| 1988 | | Lethbridge, AB: Lethbridge Regional Hospital opens. Lethbridge Municipal soon demolished. |
| 1988 | Jan. 2 | Federal political: Canada-United States Free Trade Implementaion Act passed by the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. |
| 1988 | June 17 | Friday. |
| 1988 | June 17 | Princeton, BC: Cassiar Mines’ Similco division purchased Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada, Limited, for $15 million. |
| 1988 | July | Castlgar, BC: Airport terminal and tower opened, refurbished. |
| 1988 | Nov. 4 | Yahk, BC: Transport Canada declares airstrip “surplus.” |
| 1988 | Dec. 21 | B.C.: CP releases Interior Lake Services’ tug Iris G and service on Slocan Lake ends. |
| 1989 | | Nelson, BC: Burlington Northern ceases service, making Salmo the end of Nelson and Fort Sheppard line. |
| 1989 | Mar. 20 | Alberta election: Don Getty and PCs returned to power. |
| 1989 | May 12 | Friday |
| 1989 | May 12 | Princeton, BC: Last train out of town; a work train westbound. |
| 1989 | December | B.C.: South Okanagan Lands Irrigation District (SOLID) dissolved. |
| 1990 | | Creston, BC: CP tears out yards. |
| 1990 | | Bellevue, AB: Bellevue School demolished. |
| 1990 | | Lethbridge, AB: Molson’s sells Sick’s old brewery to developers. |
| 1990 | June 21 | Federal political: National Transportation Agency grants CP permission to abandon the Kettle Valley Railway from Penticton to Spences Bridge. |
| 1990 | July | Nelson, BC: Larry Johnson et al buy the old brewery buildings. |
| 1990 | December | B.C.: Last CP train from Grand Forks to Castlegar. |
| 1990 | Dec. 9 | Midway, BC: Last train leaves. |
| 1991 | | B.C.: CP pulls rails from Midway–Castlegar reach of the Columbia & Western R/W. |
| 1991 | | B.C.: CP pulls rails from Penticton–Spences Bridge reach of the Kettle Valley Railway. |
| 1991 | | Shell Resources sells Line Creek Mine in upper Elk to Manalta Coal Limited. |
| 1991 | | Hazell, AB: Hazell family sells its Summit Lime Works to Continental Lime Limited. |
| 1991 | | AB: Oldman River Dam completed and Reservoir begins to fill. |
| 1991 | | Kimberley, BC: Cominco begins explaining the process of decommissioning the Sullivan Mine. |
| 1991 | | Elko, BC: Army destroys the old Elk River Canyon bridge. |
| 1991 | | Lethbridge, AB: Derelict “House of Lethbridge” brewery razed. |
| 1991 | Jan. 1 | Oliver, BC: Incorporated as a Town. |
| 1991 | Jan. 12 | Elko, BC: Post office closes. Marg Fitzpatrick, post master. |
| 1991 | Mar. 11 | AB political: Thomas Gordon Towers appointed lieutenant-governor (to April 17th, 1996). |
| 1991 | July | Fort Macleod, AB: Crestbrook Forest Industries closed its Fort Plywood & Lumber operation. |
| 1991 | July 12 | Creston, BC: Crestbrook Forest Industries shuts down the last operation on the old Rodger’s mill site. Salvaged immeditely. |
| 1991 | Aug. 26 | B.C.: CPR crews work their way into Princeton pulling Kettle Valley Railway hardware. |
| 1991 | Sep. 6 | Grand Forks, BC: Pope & Talbot and CanPar incorporate a numbered company to operate a shortline railway. Named the Grand Forks Railway in August of 1992. |
| 1991 | Oct. 17 | BC election: Michael Harcourt leads New Democratic Party to power. |
| 1991 | Oct. 29 | Grand Forks, BC: Yale Hotel burns. |
| 1991 | November | Princeton, BC: New World Mine Development Limited begins mining and marketing zeolite—fertilizer, deodorant, insulator. |
| 1992 | | Hedley, BC: Homestake Canada Inc. assumes control of all properties on Nickel Plate Mountain. |
| 1992 | | Pincher Creek, AB: Oldman River Dam dedicated and reservoir begins to fill. |
| 1992 | | Galloway, BC: Canada Cedar Pole Preservers built new plant. |
| 1992 | May 1 | Michel Valley, BC: Westar Mining Limited suspends operations on Harmer Ridge open pit. |
| 1992 | Summer | B.C.: CPR pull the steel from the Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Coal and Railway Company right-of-way from Merritt to Spences Bridge. |
| 1992 | August | B.C.: Grand Forks Railway comes into being. |
| 1992 | Aug 31 | B.C.: Westar Mining Limited granted protection under the Company Creditors Arrangement Act. |
| 1992 | Dec. 1 | Manning Provincial Park, BC: Eastgate Lodge destroyed by fire. |
| 1992 | Dec. 7 | Hope, BC: Town declared a District Municipality. |
| 1992 | Dec. 12 | AB political: Ralph Philip Klein replaces Getty as PC premier. |
| 1992 | Dec. 17 | Ottawa: North American Free Trade Agreement Implementaion Act passed by the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien. |
| 1993 | | AB: Kenotech Limited of San Francisco emplaces the first 25 wind turbines on Cowley Ridge. |
| 1993 | June 15 | AB election: Klein and PCs returned. |
| 1993 | June 25 | Federal political: Avril Phaedra Douglas (Kim) Campbell sworn in as prime minister replacing a retired Mulroney. |
| 1993 | June 30 | B.C.: Lighthouse at Pilot Bay decommissioned by Federal government and trasferred to province. |
| 1993 | July 6 | Blairmore, AB: Former Provincial Courthouse declared a Provincial Historic Site. |
| 1993 | Sep. 10 | Castlegar, BC: Politic declaration of the reclamation of downtown. |
| 1993 | Sep. 14 | Last train on CPR’s Slocan Branch line. Branch formally closed. |
| 1993 | Oct. 25 | Federal election: Liberals win federal power under Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien. |
| 1993 | November | Princeton, BC: Similco shut down again. |
| 1994 | | B.C. Political: Province creates the Columbia Power Corporation to administer hydro-generating assets in the Columbia basin. |
| 1994 | | AB: The Chinook Project and the Peigan Nation emplace a further 27 wind turbines on Cowley Ridge. |
| 1994 | | Elko, BC: Domestic natural gas service offered. |
| 1994 | June 25 | Federal political: Joseph Philip Robert Murray appointed 20th Commissioner of the RCMP (to September 1, 2000). |
| 1994 | July 23 | Castlegar, BC: Robson-Castlegar Bridge dedicated. Abutment stamped 2987-93. |
| 1994 | October | Esso Resources Canada, Limited, sells Coal Mountain operation to Fording Coal Limited. |
| 1995 | | Blairmore, AB: School Foundation of Nippon buys the old Courthouse. |
| 1995 | Mar. 27 | Osoyoos, BC: Rialto Hotel burns. Built 1938. |
| 1995 | Apr. 21 | BC political: Garde B. Gardom appointed lieutenant-governor. |
| 1995 | June | Floods in the Elk River and Oldman River basins on both sides of the Divide in south-western Canada. |
| 1995 | June | Fort Macleod, AB: C&E bridge over the Oldman wrecked. |
| 1995 | June | Lethbridge, AB. Bridgeview Campground washed away. |
| 1995 | June 6 | B.C.: Highmark of floods in the Michel Valley. |
| 1995 | Summer | Trail, BC: “Old Bridge” redecked with lignum vitae. |
| 1995 | July 1 | Coalhurst, AB: Incorporated as a Town. |
| 1995 | July 6 | B.C.: Columbia Basin Trust created. |
| 1995 | Sep. 17 | Summerland, BC: Kettle Valley Steam Railway Heritage Society reopens Trout Creek Canyon Bridge near Summerland. |
| 1995 | Sep. 22 | U.S.A.: Burlington Northern, and the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe merged to become the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. |
| 1995 | December | Lethbridge, AB: St. Michael’s Hospital closed and soon demolished. |
| 1996 | | B.C.: Columbia Power Corporation bought the Brilliant Dam on the Lower Kootenay River from UtiliCorp for $43 million. |
| 1996 | | Sparwood, BC: Town buys the “World’s Largest Dumptruck” for $1.00. |
| 1996 | Feb. 22 | B.C. Political: Glen Clark replaces Harcourt as NDP premier. |
| 1996 | Mar. 31 | Regina, SK: The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool completes its transition to a publicly-traded corporation. |
| 1996 | Apr. 1 | The Softwood Lumber Agreement between the U.S. and Canada comes into effect (for five years). |
| 1996 | Apr. 17 | AB political: Horace Andrew “Bud” Olson appointed lieutenant-governor (to February 10th, 2000). |
| 1996 | May 28 | BC election: Glen Clark leads New Democratic Party to re-election. |
| 1996 | July | Hedley, BC: Homestake Canada suspends mining in the Nickel Plate open pit mine. |
| 1996 | Autumn | Princeton, BC: Similco suspends operations. |
| 1996 | Oct. 9 | Hedley, BC: Concentration mill at the Nickel Plate mine ceases production. |
| 1996 | Oct. 14 | Hedley, BC: Homestake Canada pours its last bar of Nickel Plate gold. |
| 1997 | | Federal political: Canadian National Railways privatized and name modified to “Canadian National Railway.” |
| 1997 | | B.C.: Olson overpass completed on Crowsnest Highway north of Hosmer. |
| 1997 | | Burmis, AB: Rinke and Sons Lumber Company ceases operations. |
| 1997 | Mar. 11 | AB election: Ralph Klein and PCs returned to power. |
| 1997 | Mar. 13 | Cranbrook, BC: City buys East Kootenay Airport. |
| 1997 | June 1 | Kootenay Valley Railway created within CP by management and Employees of the line. Term to end Dec. 31, 2001. |
| 1997 | June 2 | Federal election: Liberals again to power under Jean Chrétien. |
| 1997 | September | Sparwood, BC: Municipality levels the last of the old Michel Crow’s Nest Pass Coal buildings. |
| 1997 | Sep. 1 | Coleman, AB: Cameron Block burns. Built 1904. |
| 1998 | | B.C.: Stone Consolidated allowed the Castlegar pulp mill to slip into receivership. |
| 1998 | | Luscar Coal buys Manalta Coal. |
| 1998 | | Frank, AB: Turtle Mountain Playground/Motor Inn demolished. |
| 1998 | | Kimberley, BC: Charlie Locke’s Resorts of the Canadian Rockies buys the Kimberley ski hill. |
| 1998 | Feb. | B.C.: International Reload Systems buys BNSF ex-Nelson and Fort Sheppard from Columbia Gardens to end of steel at Salmo. Headquarters at Fruitvale. One locomotive, a GP9. |
| 1998 | May 13 | Princeton, BC: The Great Princeton Bank Robbery. A Cat 950F front-end loader used at 4:15 a.m. to remove the night-deposit box from the wall of the CIBC. |
| 1998 | July 15 | B.C.: Nisga’a Land Agreement reached. First land rights negotiations begun by Tribe in 1887. With 1,930 square kilometres of the Naas River valley, 62 additional square kilometres of detached tribal lands, and $190 million in compensation, the Nisga’a will, if they ratify the Agreement, govern and police themselves. |
| 1998 | July 31 | Manitoba Pool Elevators and the Alberta Wheat Pool merge to form Agricore Co-operative. |
| 1998 | Oct. 8 | AB: Dead since the late 1970s, the “Burmis Tree” falls over. |
| 1998 | Nov. 22 | B.C.: Omnitrax begins operation of the Okanagan Valley Railway. Uses ex-CN Vernon-Kelowna-Lumby trackage and CP’s Vernon-Sicamous. |
| 1998 | Nov. 25 | AB: The “Burmis Tree” resurrected. |
| 1999 | | Kimberley, B.C.: Former CPR station condemned and pushed down. (? 2000) |
| 1999 | Apr. 1 | Federal political: Nunavut Territory created in the N-WT. |
| 1999 | Apr. 2 | Cranbrook, BC: Tembec Inc. acquired Crestbrook Forest Industries. |
| 1999 | Apr. 27 | Crowsnest, AB: St. Cyrll’s RC Church in Bellevue and the Holy Spirit Church in Coleman closed. |
| 1999 | May | Coleman, AB.: Calgary real estate speculators buy Cameron School building. |
| 1999 | May | Bellevue, AB: Bellevue Arena demolished. |
| 1999 | June 19 | Brocket, AB: St. Cyprian’s Anglican deconsecrated. |
| 1999 | Aug. 4 | New Aiyansh, BC: Nisga’a chief Joseph Gosnell, premier Glen Clark, and Canadian Minister of Indian Affairs Jane Stewart initial the Nisga’a Land Agreement of 1998. |
| 1999 | Aug. 5 | Interlake Agro joins Agricore. |
| 1999 | November | Grand Forks, B.C.: Roxul, Incorporated, a division of Rockwool International, begins production of insulation materials. |
| 1999 | Nov. 1 | Weyerhaeuser buys MacMillan-Bloedel Corporation. |
