• Mrs. Isaac Kipp, Chilliwack's "first lady of the land" dies.
• Chilliwack's new airport, Chadsey Field, officially opened by Squadron Leader Earl MacLeod with 3000 attending.
• Thousands attend fifth Cherry Carnival.
• King and Queen of Siam pay informal visit to Chilliwack.
• Norman Skelton and Harrison Lowther bag two cougars.
• Census returns give Chilliwack population of 2432, increase is 665.
• Officially announced that the Trans-Canada Highway to follow old Yale Road, south of the river.
• Township Council cuts wages and salaries 10 per cent.

1932

• Cultus Lake Park Act passed by private bills committee of legislature.
• P.W. Crankshaw, pioneer resident, dies from injuries received when attacked by bull at his farm.
• Chinatown burns with losses of $10,000.

1933

• Council faces reduced grants from government, tax rates expected to mount.
• Telephone rates cannot be lowered, farmers are informed.
• Vedder River Logging Co. employing 80 men.
• Two train carloads of Yarrow rhubarb leave for Prairie market.

1934

• High school trustees decide against salary raise.
• New Atchelitz Hall formally opened. Red letter community event, with leading citizens from all over valley participating.
• "Devil's Corner" on Cultus Lake Road is to be improved. New road to be built at lower level and one way traffic to rule.
• Fruit shipments continue heavy; aphids attack pea crops in district.; new Athletic Park formally opened with fitting civic ceremony.
• Many children benefit from opening of Kin Kiddy Kamp at Cultus Lake
• Heifer cattle from Chilliwack shipped to China.
• Early closing hours adopted by merchants to bring stores in line with 48 hour week.
• Chinatown mass of ruins as early morning blaze destroys eight buildings. Families homeless and dependent on relief. Thousands throng hopyards for annual harvest. Special trains to bring pickers to City as merchants organize to secure business.
• Ryder Lake residents raise log schoolhouse by volunteer labour.
• Chilliwack unites to aid dried-out areas in Saskatchewan. Two cars of fruit, vegetables, and clothing to go from here.

1935

• Chilliwack isolated. Light, power, transport and communication services disrupted. City tangled mess of poles and wires as "silver thaw" strikes.
• Sumas reclamation area becomes lake once more when flood waters rise.
• Fiftieth anniversary of opening of Sardis public school celebrated at public banquet and meeting in Sardis Community Hall.
• Police commence drive against cattle owners who permit animals to stray onto motor highways.
• City Council adjourns meeting to take in baseball game in new night-lighted park.
• Despite early morning downpour, Cherry Carnival great success. Miss Viola Thornton crowned queen of the carnival. Picturesque Highland games added to spectacle as clans gather.
• City allots five acres for Agricultural Association park at fair grounds.
• Fine new St. Mary's Catholic Church completed.
• Contract awarded for new community centre at fair grounds.
• Hatchery to remain open at Cultus Lake. Fortieth anniversary of East Chilliwack observed.

1936

• Severe winter causes feed shortage.
• Game Warden Butler bags 132 pound cougar near Cultus Lake.
• Miss Clara Edith Cartmell, Chilliwack High School, leads British Columbia matriculants.
• The Vedder Logging Company again operating after two month shutdown.
• Vedder Logging Company begins construction of railway line to Vedder Mountain timber limits.
• Lime company begins clearing operations at Popcum claims.

1937

• People skate on Cultus Lake during cold blast.
• Forestry camp established at Cultus Lake for workers on relief.

1938

• Thankful Mennonites mark 10th anniversary of settlement in Yarrow. New Mennonite Church at Yarrow to seat 1200 people.

1939

• City's population climbs to 3700.
• King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Chilliwack.
• The old B.C. Electric interurban milk train, a familiar site for 29 years, has been taken off the run, replaced by a truck.
• New Cultus Lake pavilion constructed.
• 215 garden plots readied for school garden program.
• Formal declaration of war issued from Ottawa. Marriage license sales increase.