• RCMP start lake boat patrols.
• Social Welfare costs soar 50%; about 2,000 cases a month are handled.
• Sewer project gets underway.

1961

• Ex-ferry skipper, Capt. J.T. Henley, leaves $30,000 to Valleyhaven.
• New Rosedale Middle School opens.
• Four tons of medical supplies arrive for use of advance treatment centre in case of nuclear attack.
• 5,000 attend airshow at municipal airport.
• Over 14,000 attend fair.
• Largest Safeway store in Lower Mainland opens in Chilliwack on Main Street.

1961

• Rocket Richard visits Chilliwack.
• No smoking rule for night school at Chilliwack Senior High.

1962

• Concrete steps were agreed upon to ease the Vedder River flood problem.
• Hundreds attend Easter sunrise service at cemetery on Mt. Shannon.
• City population is over 8,000.
• Cultus Lake residents get natural gas.
• Double headed parking meters ordered for Yale Road.
• Ban the Bomb marches pass through Chilliwack.

1965

• Residents demand action on pollution.
• Cooke's Presbyterian Church building, built in 1888, is demolished, paving the way for a new edifice.
• Unemployment swings to lowest point in years.
• 18,000 attend Chilliwack Fair, largest crowd ever.

1966

• Attorney General Robert Bonner opens Ford Mountain minimum security camps.
• F.G. Leary and A.D. Rundle schools open.
• Dan Milo, in his 99th year, dies.
• Upper Fraser Valley health unit addition completed.

1967

• Birth rates in the Upper Fraser Valley drop, continuing a ten-year trend.
• Berry growers crop insurance is a first for Canada.
• Valleyhaven Senior Citizen's facility opens.
• Eleven chiefs form committee to protest suspension of aboriginal rights to fish the Fraser River.
• New Fire Hall No. 1 suits needs perfectly.

1968

• Council enters computer age: City to have data-processing.
• Chilliwack is a safe harbour for eight more Czechoslovakian refugees.
• Work proceeds on new fountain at Yarrow Park.
• It's official that there are no little green men in flying objects seen over Chilliwack. Students from Green Acres launch garbage bags with balsa base and candles.

1969

• Coqualeetza Hospital closes September 30.
• $100,000 blaze levels Atchelitz School.
• Pool and Curling Rink built at CFB Chilliwack.
• Soowahlie Church burns to the ground.