1906 - Fulton Alexander McKirdy staked the first homestead
1912 - Swift Creek Roadhouse built
1913 - Cox's start the postal service out of Swift Creek
1914 - Swift Creek train station built and railway goes through the area
1915 - Kennedy and Moore sawmill opens (one of the first mills)
1916 - Swift Creek schoolhouse built
1919 - Kennedy and Moore sawmill closes
1925 - Gordons build the first 'Valemount Hotel'
1927 - Swift Creek station is moved a mile up the track, and the town is renamed
Valemount
- Dahlberg's build their general store
1928 - Cox's move the Post Office to Valemount
1935 - Swift Creek schoolhouse burns down in June, and a new schoolhouse is built on
Main Street for September
1937 - Mortensons take over Dahlberg's store, becomes Mortenson's General Store
1939 - Kushnirs buy Valemount Hotel
1949 - First Community Hall is built with a registered community association
1951 - Kushnirs open new Valemount Hotel
- Acre of land fenced in for cemetery between 4th and 5th Avenue (out in the bush
at that time), on land donated by Gordons
1952 - New two-room school is built on 5th Avenue
1953 - Hystad Brothers put in a planer yard on Beavan Crescent
1956 - Geir's store opens on 5th Ave
1957 - Freight shed built onto train station
1958 - Town gets power (originally provided by Mr. Flemming, but taken over later in
the year by Northlands Utilities (BC) Ltd.)
1959 - Hystads begin to move their equipment down the Canoe River
- Brick Post Office opens on Main Street
1960 - Street lights installed
- Phones installed
- BC Hydro takes over power supply
- Curling rink built
1962 - Valemount incorporated as a municipality
- Two more rooms built on to the new school
- Village Office, with library, built on Commercial Drive
1963 - CIBC opens on Main Street in the old Cox homestead
- First resident doctor arrives, Dr. A L Thompson
- Royal Canadian Legion Branch 266 (Valemount), opens
1964 - Route for new Yellowhead Highway surveyed
- Formal opening of Waterworks
- Fire protection now available
1965 - Construction on new Yellowhead Highway goes through
- Television installed, receiver up on Canoe mountain
1966 - Three new rooms and a gym with a stage added to the school
1967 - Centennial Park opens
1968 - Yellowhead Motel built
- House built for a resident doctor is converted to clinic
- Old Valemount Café building becomes the Seniors' Hall
1970 - Valemount Forestry Office opens
- Liquor store built on Main Street
1971 - Mortenson's store opens in new location on 5th Avenue
1972 - Ice arena opens
- Canoe Mountain Echo prints its first paper
1973 - Library moves into old schoolhouse
1974 - Canoe Mountain Holidays opens its Heli-Skiing lodge
1975 - Elementary school built
- First class to graduate in Valemount
- Artificial ice installed in arena
1976 - Court House opens
1977 - Community Hall burns down
- First modern health clinic opens
1978 - Grand opening of the Senior Citizens home
1979 - New Village Office opens, with fire hall
- New Community Hall opens
- Government Agents office opens
1980 - Grand opening of new Village Office
- Construction begins on sewer system
1981 - Post Office moves into Karas mall
- Sewer system completed
1982 - Valemount's first ball park opens
1983 - Fire Hall opens on 5th Avenue
1984 - 5th Avenue is paved
- Valemount Forestry office closes, now based out of McBride
1986 - Kinnickinick Park opens
1987 - Valemount Historic Society purchases the old Train Station
1988 - New Library opens
1991 - New curling rink opens
- Official opening of the Valemount airport
1992 - Train Station reopens as the Museum
2006 - New high school opens
