| 1910
- 1920 |
 |
The
115-acre Songhees Indian Reserve is purchased by
the provincial government. |
|
Strathcona
Park created in central Vancouver Island. |
|
Local
inventor William Gibson achieves successful flight
in home-made plane. |
|
Miners
strike in Nanaimo,
Ladysmith,
Cumberland
and South Wellington to protest unsafe working conditions.
|
|
News
of the sinking of the Lusitania sparks anti-German
demonstration in downtown Victoria. |
|
Queen
Charlotte Islands Sitka spruce used for aircraft
construction. |
|
Japanese-registered
sailing ship Komagata Maru, carrying 376
Sikhs, is turned away from Vancouver Harbour. |
|
Helen
McGill appointed first BC provincial court judge.
|
|
National
news-gathering co-operative, Canadian Press, enabled
faster, more efficient dissemination of news throughout
Canada. |
|
Workmen's
Compensation Act introduced. |
|
Esquimalt
& Nanaimo Railway runs first train from Victoria
to Courtenay
over new extension from Parksville.
|
|
Prohibition
law becomes effective. |
|
Mrs.
Ralph Smith becomes first woman member of the BC
legislature. |
|
Daylight
Saving Time is introduced. |
|
The
Big Snow cripples the city of Victoria,
which relies on the army to help dig it out. |
|
BC
purchases two submarines, to be based at Esquimalt. |
|
Fire
sweeps Victoria's downtown business section, causing
more than $1 million damage. |
|
Virulent
epidemic of Spanish influenza forgotten as citizens
celebrate Armistice in the Great War. |
|
More
than 300 die in the sinking of the Princess Sophia. |
|
Of
43,000 BC men and women who went to fight in Europe,
almost 20,000 have been killed or wounded. |
|
Ice
hockey, Vancouver Island's newest spectator sport,
makes its debut at Victoria's 4000-seat arena. |
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