The Story of Italians in Fernie, 1881 - 1921 The Story of Italians in Fernie, 1881 - 1921 Fernie Museum
The impressive bar is a testament to the importance of liquor for the success of Fernie’s hotels.
My Dad worked at the mines in Morrissey in 1904. He worked there until they closed the mines down in Morrissey, then he worked up at Coal Creek. […]
My Dad had a good job and he was quite established as far as the mines and stuff goes. He worked in One East mine, along with Angelo’s […]
Do you know what a bump is? You have a whole mountain, you have a mine going in here, and the mine develops the coal on the advance. […]
They went through many hardships. I remember when we were going to school they’d wait for that whistle to blow to see if there was work. If it […]
The Alberta Hotel, Blairmore, Alberta, ca 1920 where Emilio Picariello based his bootlegging business. It was close to the liquor wholesalers in Fernie, BC and runs could be […]
This label shows the distinctive branding of the Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Company for a 12 oz beer with 16% alcohol content. The brewery would produce Prohibition beer with […]
Phillip Carosella, liquor merchant, owned and operated his liquor warehouse next to his general store. He also was one of the hotel owners that were fined for liquor […]
The Roma Hotel was one of 11 Fernie hotels whose sales significantly declined following the enactment of Prohibition in 1917. Italian miners and others who frequented the hotel had […]
Twenty-eight of the 128 men killed were Italian.
In Montalbetti vs. Hosmer Mines the company accused Enrico Montalbetti of negligence in ordering two “Slavs” to drive a stick of dynamite into a hole with a sledgehammer. […]
Fernie, B.C. with the coke ovens in the foreground, May, 1899.
