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| 1940
- Internment of all enemy aliens requested by city.
- Archie Conway, becomes Chilliwack's first casualty of the Second World War, June 25, 1940, H.M.C.S. Fraser.
- Coqualeetza Residential School to become a sanatorium.
1941
- Garages and gas stations implement federal gas rationing.
- Local Japanese-Canadian families pledge their support to Canada after Japanese air attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Interment follows.
- 1942 Cancelled! Sixteenth annual Cherry Carnival becomes war casualty.
- Pacific Coast Militia Rangers are formed to combat potential invasion.
- Tent City at engineer's camp disappears. Troops move into permanent quarters.
1943
- "Test tube" cows to be raised in Chilliwack as artificial insemination is tried for first time.
- First conscientious objectors at work on local farms.
- Two search and rescue parties near Canadian Pacific Airways crash site on Mount William Knight.
- First Boeing trainees start work at new Catalina aircraft sub-assembly plant.
- 1944 Miracle drug, Penicillin, successfully used here.
- Best on continent, Chilliwack produces two million cans of yellow corn.
1945
- English brides of local men arrive in Chilliwack.
- Chilliwack marks the end of the war with service and parade.
- Engineer Camp becomes a permanent feature in Chilliwack.
1946
- Chilliwack's new civic airport officially opened.
- First Ex-Servicemen move into VLA subdivision homes.
- All Sappers War Memorial unveiled at the Royal Canadian School of Military Engineering.
1947
- Berry growers hail jam rationing end.
- Sharon Mennonite Collegiate Institute opens.
1948
- Chilliwack in grip of flood battle.
- Second World War names added to War Memorial.
- First survey of flood damage reveals two thousand homes flooded.
1949
- Largest neon sign in the Fraser Valley installed at Chilliwack's new Paramount Theatre.
- Farmers favour experimental sprinkler irrigation.
- A house a day is planned as army homes are built on assembly line.
- Displaced persons throng Mennonite Brethren Church.
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