1718 Cree fur traders first come west and establish fur trade with Sekani and Deneza (Beaver).

1794 Establishment of Rocky Mountain Fort, direct ancestor of Fort St. John, the first trading post and oldest white settlement in British Columbia.

1858 Gold Fever brings miners into the Peace country.

1866 First man of the cloth to serve in the area is Bishop Faraud OMI.

1898 Deneza (Beaver) turn back miners from passing through their territory enroute to the Klondike.

1899 Government representatives negotiate a treaty of peace and sharing, known today as Treaty 8.

1902 The last buffalo is killed.
Frank Beaton is transferred from Hudson's Hope to serve in Fort St. John as Hudson's Bay factor. He is the first white man to take up permanent residence at Fort St. John and remain to see agriculture displace the fur trade.

1905 Construction of the first police headquarters.

1913 Homesteaders begin to pour into the region.

1916 DA Thomas is the first and largest sternwheeler steamer on the Peace River - 1,114 T.,160 passengers, hot and cold running water and electricity!
Premier Pattullo's government ban leasing provincial oil and gas rights in the Peace River area for 26 years (1919-31 and 1934-47).

1928 Finch builds a larger store, and donates adjacent land for a Catholic Church and a hospital. The present site of Fort St. John grows up around this nucleus.

1929 Royal Bank officials drive through the night to beat Bank of Commerce officials to Fort St. John.

1930 The first Outpost Hospital is established.
The Federal Gov't. returns the Peace River Block to B.C.

1931 The Sisters of Providence start the Providence Hospital - a 30'x50' building with 10 beds (predecessor to the present hospital).
Botanist Mary G. Henry and her party travel on horseback from Fort St. John to the legendary Tropical Valley of Toad River Hotsprings. Her research is later recognized by the Scottish Geographical Society and contributes to the layout of the Alcan (Alaska) Highway.

1934 The Charles Bedaux Expedition attempts to drive from Edmonton to the Pacific across the wilderness of Northern B.C. with five Citroen half tracks. Over 130 horses carry supplies for the party of 50. Cost? - approximately $250,000! The attempt fails.

1942 The Alaska Highway is completed in only 8 months and 12 days using 1,500 U.S. troops, 7,500 civilians and 11,000 pieces of equipment at a cost of $115 million.

1943 U.S. Air Force constructs a new airport which Canada buys at the end of the war.
The Peace River Suspension Bridge (Taylor) opens nine months after construction begins.

1945 The Federal Government Departments of Veteran Affairs and Indian Affairs make a land deal which moves natives off the 18,000 acre Montney Reserve. The choice farmland is then offered to returning war veterans. Oil is discovered on some of these farms in the late 1950's, hence "The Montney Millionaires".
Frank McMahon and associates apply to the B.C. Government under Premier Pattullo for a 700 mile pipeline right-of-way and natural gas permits.

1951 McMahon's Pacific Atlantic Fort St. John Number One well strikes oil (the first in the province) which leads to the discovery of Westcoast's first natural gas field.

1952 Removal of the last motorboat, the "Watson Lake", ends 164 years of commercial traffic on the Peace River. The waterway is replaced by the Alaska Highway.
After seven years of wandering, the natives from the former Montney Reserve are given 6,000 acres along the Blueberry, Doig and Beatton Rivers as new reserves.
Completion of the Hart Highway through the Pine Pass links the Alaska Highway to the rest of B.C.

1957 Westcoast Transmission completes its natural gas pipeline from the Peace to the Pacific.
Taylor Refinery is completed.
Taylor Bridge collapses. Traffic is detoured over the railway trestle.

1958 The Pacific Great Eastern Railway arrives in Fort St. John.
The Airport is developed and refurbished with two runways extended to 6,900' and 6,700', and made 200' wide.

1961 Western Pacific Products & Crude Oil (WesPac) completes an oil pipeline from Taylor to Kamloops.

1967 WAC Bennett Hydroelectric Dam is completed upstream from Hudson's Hope.

1977 Northern Lights College opens in Fort St. John.

1983 10,500 year old stone bead is found at Charlie Lake Cave by Simon Fraser University Department of Archeaology.

1988 Fibreco Pulpmill opens in Taylor.

1989Canfor opens their sawmill and planer operation in Taylor taking over Peace Wood Products.

1992 UNBC (University of Northern B.C.) begins operations in partnership with Northern Lights College.
Fort St. John Cultural Centre opens with library, theatre, art gallery, meeting rooms and dance floors.
Rendezvous '92 celebrations mark the 50th anniversary of the building of the Alaska Highway.

1994 Bicentennial of the first white settlement in B.C.

1995 Taylor opens a new 18 hole championship golf course called the Lone Wolf Golf Club.

1996 Fort St. John opens the newly constructed North Peace Leisure Pool.

fsj.net/mile0.net started - First local commercial Internet Service Provider to serve all of the communities (Chetwynd, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Taylor, Tumbler Ridge, and Fort Nelson) in the B.C. Peace Region.