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Chronology of Phyllis James Munday (1894–1990)
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| PHYLLIS MUNDAY AND HER TIMES | CANADA AND THE WORLD |
|---|---|
| 1801 | |
| Alfred Pendrell Waddington (future British Columbia entrepreneur) is born in London, England. | |
| 1802 | |
| Ceylon becomes a British crown colony; successive governors will seize vast quantities of “waste” land in the central highlands for coffee and later tea and rubber plantations. | |
| 1849 | |
| Arthur Frank James (father) is born in England. | |
| 1857 | |
| Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (future founder of the Boy Scout movement) is born in London, England. | |
| 1858 | |
| Alfred Waddington emigrates to Victoria in the Colony of Vancouver Island and publishes the first B.C. book, The Fraser Mines Vindicated. | |
| 1862 | |
| Alfred Waddington chooses Bute Inlet as the starting point for a road into the Interior of British Columbia (B.C.) | |
| 1864 | |
| In B.C., in the so-called Chilcotin War, Tsilhqot’ in people, made uneasy by European activity in the wake of the Cariboo gold rush, kill fourteen road builders who were cutting Waddington’s road; troops are dispatched and five more Europeans are killed; six Tsilhqot’ in are hanged; the road is never built. | |
| 1870 | |
| Beatrice James (mother) is born in England. | |
| 1872 | |
| Alfred Waddington dies of smallpox in Ottawa, Ontario. | |
| 1883 | |
| Conrad Kain (future mountain guide) is born in Nasswald, Austria. The St. John Ambulance Association and The Brigade begin teaching first aid and caring for the injured in Canada. | |
| 1885 | |
| Completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) makes the mountains of the B.C. Interior accessible to climbers. | |
| 1886 | |
| Yoho National Park is established west of Lake Louise in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. | |
| 1890 | 1890 |
| Walter Alfred Don Munday (future husband) is born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. | Vancouver is the second Canadian city to install an urban electric streetcar system. |
| 1891 | |
| An interurban electric street railway is installed between Vancouver and New Westminster. | |
| 1894 | 1894 |
| Phyllis Beatrice James is born to Frank and Beatrice James on September 24 in the central hill country of Ceylon. | Amelia Bloomer, American social reformer and champion of women’s dress reform, dies in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Thompson dies at Windsor Castle in England. B.C.’s Fraser River floods and causes millions of dollars’ damage; diking of the river begins. |
| 1896 | 1896 |
| Esmée Mary “Betty” James (sister) is born. | In Toronto, George Sterling Ryerson organizes a Canadian Branch of the British Red Cross Society. |
| 1899 | |
| The Boer War begins in South Africa; Canada sends troops; the war divides French and English Canadians. In Canada, the CPR brings in Swiss mountain guides to promote tourism at its mountain hotels. | |
| 1900 | |
| Robert Baden-Powell is promoted to major-general after his 215-day defence of Mafeking, South Africa. The first regular ferry service across Burrard Inlet between Vancouver and North Vancouver begins. | |
| 1901 | 1901 |
| The James family leaves Ceylon and goes first to England, then Manitoba. | Queen Victoria dies and is succeeded by her son, King Edward VII. George Mercer Dawson, geologist and explorer, dies in Ottawa. |
| 1902 | 1902 |
| Frank Richard Ingram James (brother) is born in Sydney, Manitoba. | The Boer War ends with the Peace of Vereeniging. |
| 1903 | 1903 |
| The James family moves to the western shore of Kootenay Lake in eastern B.C. | The North Vancouver Ferry and Power Company takes over the Burrard Inlet ferry service and builds a second ship. |
| 1906 | |
| The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) is founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba; unlike its British counterpart, the club permits women to join. | |
| 1907 | 1907 |
| The James family resides briefly at Slocan Lake in the Kootenays before deciding to emigrate to New Zealand; enroute they change their minds and decide to settle in Vancouver. | The ACC begins to publish the Canadian Alpine Journal, an annual publication. The B.C. Mountaineering Club (BCMC) is founded; six climbers climb Mount Garibaldi. |
| 1908 | |
| In Britain, Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys is published in six parts and sells for four pence a copy; the scouting movement arrives in Canada in the spring. | |
| 1909 | |
| In Britain, the Girl Guide movement is founded by Baden-Powell’s sister, Agnes. The ACC hires Conrad Kain to be its first official guide in the Rocky Mountains. | |
| 1910 | |
| Phyllis James begs the scoutmaster of a newly formed Boy Scout troop at St. James Church in Vancouver to allow a troop for girls too; she recruits her sister and seven other girls and appoints herself Acting Patrol Leader. After several months Phyllis learns about Girl Guides and the existence of a company in Vancouver; she and her scouts form the 2nd Vancouver Company of Girl Guides. As the oldest girl in her company, Phyllis takes her company to Bowen Island for their first camping trip. | 1910 Baden-Powell writes to Canada’s Governor General, Earl Grey, and asks him to organize Boy Scouts in Canada; the Girl Guide movement follows. In Canada, the National Council of Women speaks out in favour of women being allowed to vote. King Edward VII dies and is succeeded by his son, King George V. |
| 1912 | 1912 |
| Led and chaperoned by Elsie Carr, a member of the BCMC, and dressed in heavy skirts, Phyllis and her Girl Guide company hike to the top of Grouse Mountain. | King George V grants a Royal Charter to the Boy Scout movement throughout the British Commonwealth; Robert and Agnes Baden-Powell publish The Handbook for Girl Guides. In B.C., the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) is incorporated; Swiss guide Edward Feuz, Jr. moves permanently to B.C., bringing mountain culture and traditions to Canada. Titanic strikes an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sinks; 1490 people perish. |
| 1913 | 1913 |
| At the Empire Day parade in New Westminster, Phyllis meets Amy Leigh, lieutenant of the Burnaby Girl Guide Company. | Guided by Conrad Kain, W.W. “Billy” Foster and Albert H. MacCarthy make the first recognized ascent of Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies; a Mount Robson Provincial Park is established. |
| 1914 | 1914 |
| Wearing an ankle-length skirt, Phyllis swims fifty metres in the ocean and wins her badge. Phyllis’s Girl Guide company takes on projects for the war effort. Phyllis attends St. John Ambulance Brigade classes and earns First Aid and Home Nursing certificates so she can teach these skills to her fellow Girl Guides. Phyllis’s sister, Betty, marries Arthur Richard McCallum. | In B.C., Canada’s Governor General, the Duke of Connaught and Strathern, inspects the Girl Guides in Vancouver. On August 4, Britain declares war on Germany; Canada is automatically in the war; young men eagerly join the army. |
| 1915 | |
| The Women’s Volunteer Corps is established in Vancouver to train women for volunteer wartime service. At the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium, Germans facing a French unit use chlorine gas for the first time; the First Canadian Division is gassed on April 24; Canadian Dr. John McCrae writes “In Flanders Fields” on May 3. | |
| 1916 | 1916 |
| For her first big BCMC climb; Phyllis climbs the West Lion with a group that includes soldiers on leave awaiting orders to go overseas to fight in Europe. Phyllis’s Girl Guides present a musical entertainment, “The Posy Bed” at the Imperial Theatre to raise money for “patriotic causes.” | Frederick Banting (future co-discoverer of insulin) graduates in the same medical school class as Norman Bethune (future founder of the Canadian Blood Transfusion Service). In B.C., the troubled PGE Railway manages to complete the part of the main line that extends from Squamish to Clinton. |
| 1917 | 1917 |
| Phyllis is elected to the BCMC cabin committee. In July, Don Munday is awarded the Military Medal “for valour at the Battle of the Triangle” at Vimy; in October he is wounded severely in the left forearm at Passchendaele. | Canadian armed forces in France are responsible for a major Allied victory at Vimy Ridge in April. In Canada, the Military Services Act imposes conscription, which divides French and English Canadians; to ensure the election of the incumbent Union government, the bill allows army nurses and female relatives of servicemen to vote. In Belgium, the Battle of Passchendaele (third battle of Ypres) begins; over 15,000 Canadians are killed or wounded in the assault, which eventually captures the village but brings no strategic gain. October (Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia deposes the monarchy. Chief Scout Baden-Powell publishes Girl Guiding |
| 1918 | 1918 |
| Phyllis is working at Royal Columbian Hospital as a stenographer when she meets Don Munday who is a patient there; when he is granted weekend leaves they begin to hike together; Don is discharged from the army in the fall. Phyllis becomes BCMC librarian. | On November 11 the Allies and Germany sign the armistice to end the First World War, which has killed 8 million people – 60,000 of them Canadians. In Canada, all female citizens (except status First Nations women) are allowed to vote. An influenza epidemic that will kill 22 million people begins to spread around the world. |
| 1919 | 1919 |
| Phyllis and her Guides attend the first Provincial Girl Guide Rally in Victoria; their company is inspected by the Prince of Wales. On a club hike with Don Munday on Mount Baker in Washington State, Phyllis senses that Don is in danger and saves him from going over an edge. | On a visit to Canada, the Prince of Wales buys a ranch in Alberta. In Canada, the federal government nationalizes several indebted railways to form the Canadian National Railway (CNR), the longest system in North America. In Ottawa, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the first French-speaking prime minister of Canada, dies. Edmund Percival Hillary (future mountaineer) is born in Auckland, New Zealand. |
| 1920 | 1920 |
| Phyllis James marries Don Munday at Christ Church Vancouver on February 4; for their honeymoon they take the ferry to North Vancouver, the Capilano streetcar to the end of the line, and then walk to the west ridge of Dam Mountain to the cabin Don has built; later that month they go to Mount Robson Provincial Park to climb Lynx Mountain and Resplendent Mountain. Since married women tend not to work outside the home, Phyl Munday becomes a housewife and devotes her energies to Girl Guiding; she organizes a ladies’ committee and creates the 1st Vancouver Brownie Pack with herself as Brown Owl. Phyl Munday becomes pregnant, but contrary to acceptable behaviour she continues to climb and backpack until her condition is apparent. | By order-in-council the B.C. government establishes Garibaldi Park Reserve. In the United States (U.S.), women are allowed to vote for the first time. In Ontario, Agnes Macphail addresses the United Farmers of Ontario convention; she will represent the party the following year when she becomes the first woman to be elected to the Canadian Parliament. |
| 1921 | 1921 |
| Phyl Munday gives birth to a daughter, Edith, on March 26; the baby goes on a climb up Crown Mountain with her parents eleven weeks later. | Baden-Powell receives a baronetcy from King George V. |
| 1922 | |
| Phyl Munday’s father, Frank, dies. | |
| 1923 | 1923 |
| In February, Phyl Munday is the only woman on a snowshoe trip to Mount Strachan; in the following months she goes on BCMC expeditions to Goat Mountain, Cathedral Mountain, and Dam Mountain; the club annual camp in August is at Alta Lake, a destination that requires complicated travel arrangements but rewards them with excursions in Garibaldi Park and a first ascent of Mount Blackcomb and Overlord Mountain; later that month they travel inland to the Cheam Range where three peaks in a group called the “Lucky Four” bear the names Foley, Welch and Stewart after a company of railway builders; the fourth peak is named Baby Munday Peak in honour of Edith Munday, who usually accompanies her parents on these expeditions; another mountain is named Lady Peak in Phyl Munday’s honour; the Mundays make the first ascent of Mount Stewart.ACC begins to publish The Gazette. The Mundays agree to join a partnership to develop Grouse Mountain for recreational use; Don cuts a trail from the streetcar terminus to the Grouse Plateau and begins to build Alpine Lodge; the family lives in a tent on site until they can move into the unfinished cabin ten days before Christmas. Phyl Munday receives the Girl Guide Medal of Merit in September. | Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, Chief Scout and Chief Guide, visit B.C. In Toronto, Dr. Frederick Banting is notified that he has won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of insulin; he shares his prize with Dr. Charles Best. |
| 1924 | 1924 |
| Doing all the work themselves, the Mundays sell meals and refreshments at Alpine Lodge; due to the isolation of her Grouse Mountain home, Phyl Munday requests leave of absence from her Girl Guide Company; in March, she organizes and registers the 1st Company of Lone Guides and becomes its captain. The Mundays return to the Cheam Range to make the first ascent of Mount Foley; then they head to Hope, B.C. to search successfully for the Eureka-Victoria silver mine. On July 29, Phyl Munday becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies; the expedition is guided by Conrad Kain. | In Ottawa, Agnes Macphail and nine other members of the Progressive Party form the “Ginger Group” with members of the Labour Party; the group supports proportional representation, sexual equality, and prison reform. |
| 1925 | 1925 |
| In June, Phyl Munday is given the first Girl Guide Award for Valour, Bronze Cross for rescuing and nursing teenager Sid Harling on Grouse Mountain. The climbing season begins in May with a warm-up jaunt up Mount Garibaldi followed by an ascent of Mount Arrowsmith on Vancouver Island where the Mundays look across Georgia Strait and notice one tall peak in particular; because it disappears in the clouds they name it Mystery Mountain. In June the Mundays make a first ascent of Mount Sir John Thompson and a second ascent of Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the Cariboo Mountains; at the ACC annual camp in Yoho National Park, they climb Mount Hungabee and Mount Victoria but are dis-mayed by the poor quality of the maps available for mountaineers. In September, the Mundays travel to Bute Inlet by steamer and climb Mount Rodney to view Mystery Mountain. | In B.C., the Second Narrows Bridge is built to span Burrard Inlet and supplement the North Vancouver Ferry service. The United Church of Canada is formed by a merger of the Congregationalist and Methodist Churches and a majority of Presbyterians. In Germany, Volume I of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler is published. |
| 1926 | 1926 |
| The Mundays travel up the coast north of Bute Inlet to the Homathko River; with supplies for five weeks they travel by boat, canoe, and on foot; they set up a base camp in country that is wild and unwelcoming; Phyl Munday suffers from snow-blindness; before they run out of food and have to leave, they determine that the Franklin Glacier comes off their Mystery Mountain. The Mundays leave the lodge on Grouse Mountain and move into a house in North Vancouver; a civil law suit regarding unpaid wages brings them unwelcome publicity. | The Imperial Conference issues the Balfour Declaration, which declares that Britain and the Dominions are constitutionally equal in status. In Canada, a scandal forces Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King to ask for the dissolution of Parliament, but Governor General Viscount Byng refuses; King resigns and Arthur Meighen succeeds him only to be defeated three months later in a general election; King becomes prime minister again. |
| 1927 | 1927 |
| Phyl Munday begins what will be an eighteen-year term as the Provincial Girl Guides Lones Secretary, co-ordinating all Lone Guides in B.C. In July, the Mundays take a steamer to the head of Knight Inlet, motor a boat up the Klinaklini River and climb up the Franklin Glacier towards Mystery Mountain; an injury from falling rock does not deter Phyl Munday; they bivouac at Fury Gap during a sudden storm. | The Garibaldi Park Act, introduced by B.C. Minister of Lands, Duff Pattullo, the year before, passes into law; the boundaries of the park will be extended several times. A survey crew led by J.T. Underhill completes triangulation of Mystery Mountain and confirms that it is the highest peak entirely in B.C. |
| 1928 | 1928 |
| The Mundays succeed in climbing the northwest summit of Mystery Mountain, which has been named Mount Waddington by the Geographic Board of Canada; although they will come back every season for the next eleven years, the Mundays will never reach the summit, but they will explore and document the area for other people’s use. In recognition of their contribution to the naming and registering of mountains, glaciers, rivers, creeks, and valleys, the Geographic Board of Canada designates a peak adjacent to Mount Waddington as Mount Munday. Phyl Munday begins a two-year term as Girl Guide District Commissioner, North Vancouver. | The Supreme Court of Canada says women cannot be senators because they are not “persons.” West Coast painter Emily Carr exhibits her work in Central Canada and establishes herself as a major artist. |
| 1929 | 1929 |
| Phyl Munday’s mother, Beatrice, dies. | Lord Baden-Powell is elevated to the British peerage and becomes 1st Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell. The Imperial Privy Council declares Canadian women are legally “persons” and eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate. With the collapse of the U.S. Stock Exchange in October, the ten-year-long Great Depression begins. |
| 1930 | 1930 |
| The Mundays end their membership in the BCMC so they can devote all their energies to the ACC. | In B.C., the Second Narrows Bridge has not replaced the North Vancouver Ferry service because it is too far to drive to get to it and because it has to open for ships to pass through frequently; a log barge runs into the bridge and destroys it. |
| 1931 | |
| Phyl Munday begins a fourteen-year term as Brown Owl to the 1st North Vancouver Brownie Pack. | |
| 1933 | 1933 |
| The Mundays are the first climbers to reach the summit of Combatant Mountain. | Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. |
| 1934 | |
| Conrad Kain dies in Cranbrook, B.C. | |
| 1935 | |
| Baron and Baroness Baden-Powell visit B.C. | |
| 1936 | 1936 |
| The Mundays are the first climbers to reach the summit of Silverthrone Mountain;; they encounter four grizzly bears, one of which charges them; Phyl Munday saves her husband by brandishing an ice axe. | Americans Fritz Wiessner and William House are the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Waddington. King George V dies and is succeeded by the Prince of Waleswho becomes King Edward VIII; the new King abdicates in favour of his brother, King George VI. |
| 1937 | |
| The Mundays travel up the coast in their own boat, Edidonphyl, with their daughter, who stays with them for the entire expedition for the first time; they make a first ascent of Stupendous Mountain. | |
| 1938 | 1938 |
| Phyl Munday becomes an honorary member of the ACC; she and Don have been attending ACC annual camps and have edited the Canadian Alpine Journal; Phyl Munday has won the club’s Silver Rope Award. | Funded by the Guinness Brewing Company, which has real estate holdings on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet, Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge opens. |
| 1939 | 1939 |
| In response to the declaration of war, Phyl Munday joins the St. John Ambulance Brigade and volunteers to teach first aid classes. | In September, the Second World War begins when Germany invades Poland; Britain and Canada declare war on Germany. |
| 1940 | 1940 |
| At the request of the provincial superintendent of nursing, Phyl Munday organizes a nursing division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and becomes Lady Superintendent of the 68th Nursing Division. | Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain. Future Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker is elected to the House of Commons for the first time. |
| 1941 | 1941 |
| The Mundays are the first to reach the summit of Mount Grenville. | Baron Baden-Powell dies in Nyeri, Kenya. On December 7, Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor, an American naval base in Hawaii; the U.S. declares war on Japan and Germany. |
| 1942 | 1942 |
| The Mundays are to the first to reach the summit of Mount Queen Bess. | The U.S. and Canada forcibly move Japanese citizens from the west coast of North America. |
| 1943 | 1943 |
| For the second year running, Don Munday trains soldiers in hiking on snow and ice, skiing, mountain climbing, and orienteering in Yoho National Park. | Due to increased traffic caused by the War, the North Vancouver ferry system has its busiest year. |
| 1944 | 1944 |
| Edith Munday marries and moves to England. | The D-Day invasion of Normandy by the Allies under the command of General Eisenhower begins the liberation of Europe on June 6. |
| 1945 | 1945 |
| Phyl Munday begins a two-year term as District Captain, North Vancouver Girl Guides. | Germany surrenders on May 8; Canada is one of the fifty signatories to the United Nations (UN) Charter on June 26; the U.S. drops two atomic bombs on Japan on August 6 and 9; Japan surrenders on September 2. |
| 1946 | 1946 |
| Phyl Munday begins a five-year term as Captain of the 1st Vancouver Sea Rangers. The Mundays are the first to reach the summit of Mount Reliance. | Winston Churchill uses the term “Iron Curtain” to describe the alienation between the Eastern Bloc and the West that is developing into the Cold War. |
| 1947 | |
| Phyl Munday receives the Canadian Council of Girl Guides Beaver Award, the highest honour a Guider can achieve. | |
| 1948 | 1948 |
| During the Fraser River flood, Phyl Munday patrols the river bank and dikes of the Queensborough area; when the river crests, she and her sister, Betty, spend ten days on flood duty at Durieu on the Hatzic Prairie patrolling by boat for people in need of help. Don Munday’s book The Unknown Mountain is launched. | Ceylon gains independence from Britain and joins the Commonwealth. B.C. is on high alert when the Fraser River floods; the high waters cause $15 million worth of damage. |
| 1949 | 1949 |
| Phyl Munday is North Vancouver Girl Guide Division Commissioner and becomes Provincial Superintendent of Nursing Divisions for the St. John Ambulance; she coordinates fundraising. A weak and tired Don Munday is admitted to hospital. | Elen Henderson, becomes the first Canadian fashion designer to be known internationally; included in her work are uniforms for Girl Guides and Brownies. |
| 1950 | 1950 |
| Don Munday dies in Vancouver from lobar pneumonia aggravated by the effects of having been gassed during the First World War; his wife scatters his ashes from a small airplane over Mount Munday. | North Korea invades South Korea; the UN mounts a police action; Canada sends troops. |
| 1952 | |
| Forty years after incorporation, the PGE Railway finally reaches Prince George, B.C.. King George VI dies and is succeeded by his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. | |
| 1953 | |
| Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world; Hillary is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. | |
| 1955 | |
| When Sir Edmund Hillary visits B.C., Phyl Munday accompanies him on an airplane tour of the Mount Waddington area. Phyl Munday is commandant at the Girl Guides’ first All Canada Adventure Camp at Lake O’Hara in Yoho National Park. | |
| 1957 | |
| Phyl Munday begins another term (three-year) as North Vancouver Girl Guide Division Commissioner. | |
| 1958 | |
| 1958 In B.C., an engineering mistake causes the partially completed span of the new Second Narrows Bridge over Burrard Inlet to collapse, killing eighteen and injuring twenty; the North Vancouver ferry system closes. | |
| 1960 | |
| Following the assassination of her husband, Ceylon’s Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike becomes the world’s first female prime minister. In B.C., the Second Narrows Bridge opens. | |
| 1961 | |
| In Canada, Saskatchewan premier Tommy Douglas calls a special session of the legislature to enact medicare; he resigns as premier before the legislation is passed and goes to Ottawa as head of the newly formed New Democratic Party. | |
| 1962 | 1962 |
| Although she is sixty-eight years old, Phyl Munday begins a long term as Woodcraft Adviser for the B.C. Girl Guides. | B.C. Electric Railway Company is taken over by the provincial government and becomes the B.C. Hydro and Power Authority. |
| 1964 | |
| In B.C., at Alta Lake adjacent to the northwest boundary of Garibaldi Park, a ski resort opens on Whistler Mountain. | |
| 1965 | |
| The extent of the Coast Mountains of B.C. is revealed when climber Dick Culbert writes A Climber’s Guide to the Coastal Range of British Columbia. | |
| 1967 | 1967 |
| The St. John Ambulance honours Phyl Munday by naming her Dame of Grace, and the American Alpine Club gives her an honorary membership. | Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of Confederation; Expo 67 opens in Montreal; French President Charles De Gaulle visits Canada and shouts “Vive le Québec libre!” during an outdoor speech at Montreal’s City Hall. |
| 1971 | |
| Phyl Munday becomes Honorary President of the ACC. | |
| 1972 | 1972 |
| Dick James (brother) dies. Governor General Roland Michener presents Phyl Munday with the Order of Canada. | The name of Ceylon changes to Sri Lanka. |
| 1975 | |
| Phyl Munday receives the Girl Guide Long Service Award in May. | |
| 1976 | |
| In Quebec, the separatist Parti Québécois is elected under the leadership of Réne Lévesque. | |
| 1982 | |
| Accompanied by a television camera crew for “Thrill of a Lifetime,” Phyl Munday helicopters over Mount Waddington and lands on the Homathko Icefield. | |
| 1985 | |
| Phyl Munday Nature House is opened by the Girl Guides in Lighthouse Park, Point Atkinson, West Vancouver. | |
| 1990 | |
| Phyllis Munday dies on April 11 at the age of ninety-five. The Girl Guides establish the Phyl Munday Environmental Fund. | |
| 1994 | |
| In B.C. the bridge over Burrard Inlet at the Second Narrows is renamed the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing to honour the men who died in 1958 while building it. | |
| 1997 | |
| Edith Munday dies. | |
| 1998 | |
| Canada Post issues the Phyllis Munday stamp in their Legendary Canadians stamp series to honour her many years of service with the Girl Guides of B.C. and her accomplishments in mountaineering and nature photography. The Alpine Club of Canada sponsors the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Festival and designates it the Phyllis and Don Munday Award. | |
| 1999 | |
| The B.C. government officially apologizes for the hanging of the Tsilhqot’in men in the aftermath of the “Chilcotin War” in 1864. | |
| 2002 | |
| The United Nations designates 2002 as UN International Year of Mountains. |
