1911
In one given week recently, the Granby smelter treated 15,055 tons of ore from the company’s own mines, as well as 437 tons of foreign ore, making a treatment for the week of 15,492 tons and a total treatment for the year to date of 613,002 tons.
1921
Accommodation for a government liquor store was being prepared in N.D. McInnes’ stone warehouse on Bridge Street, adjoining the Grand Forks Furniture and Hardware Co. store. A shipment of wet goods was expected by the end of the month.
The auction of chattels of the dis-incorporated City of Phoenix, conducted for the provincial government by Greenwood city clerk Walters, attracted many. A principle buyer was A. Sercu, who had become the sole inhabitant of the former mining city.
1931
City council issued a request that all businesses close for a period of two or three hours in honour of the 60th anniversary of the entry of British Columbia into Confederation and at the same time, allow citizens to welcome the aviators of the Trans-Canada Air Pageant.
1941
A young man of 23 arrived here looking for the nearest recruiting station, having hitchhiked from San Diego, Calif. with the intention of joining the Canadian Army. He could have enlisted in the U.S. but wanted to get into action without delay.
Jack Onions, secretary of the local Legion, arranged for a ride to Trail, where it is expected the young man will enlist immediately.
1951
Representatives of the Grand Forks, Greenwood and Castlegar boards of trade made a trek from Paulson to Castlegar in an off-the-record survey of a proposed alternate route from Cascade to Castlegar, for the Trans-Provincial highway.
1961
A rare sitting of the Supreme Court of B.C. was held at the Grand Forks Court House with Mr. Justice H.W. McInnes presiding. Mr. Justice McInnes was holidaying at his summer home at Christina Lake at the time.
1971
Regularly scheduled flights started again this morning when a Pacific Western Airlines plane touched down for the first time in a month at the Grand Forks airport.
The city has been advised that the government will make a grant of up to $1,500 to enable dredging and repair work to be done to the Kettle and Granby Rivers.
1976
The City of Grand Forks is introducing a new “Unsightly and Untidy Premises bylaw” which city clerk Vern Ciccone said has been used in other communities and has worked “very effectively.”
1981
The Aquatic Project Committee met with consultant Ed Sherry of Amrec Facilities to set out guidelines for the preliminary drawings of the proposed aquatic centre.
1986
The Gazette is undergoing a change of ownership. Longtime Grand Forks resident, Orma Orris, newly-retired president of the company, is selling the entire business to her daughter and son-in-law, Dawn and John Smith.
1991
Some 400 people jammed the Christina Lake community hall to express their concerns about the possible logging of about 90 hectares of land at the southwest end of Christina Lake.
1996
GFSS graduate Yasha Zibin, and Boundary Central graduate Sandy Hiller have won the Science Council of B.C.’s Headed for Success awards for excellence in science and technology.
2001
The 17-kilometre stretch of the Kettle Valley Railway right-of-way between Christina Lake and Grand Forks has been restored, says BC Gas. The route, now part of the Trans Canada Trail, is substantially improved compared to the weed-infested trail that BC Gas inherited before construction of the new pipeline.
2006
The City of Grand Forks installed a Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM) atop city hall. According to Air Quality Commission Chair Lyle Olsen, it measures fine particulates in the air and allows the city to advise the city, regional district and the ministry of environment about concerns relating to air quality. It is estimated that the TEOM will be fully operational in about a week’s time.