The Story of Italians in Fernie, 1881 - 1921 The Story of Italians in Fernie, 1881 - 1921 Fernie Museum
Co-Operativa. That’s what they called it and it was on the highway there. Mary: “This Order Independente Fior d’Italia?” We had parties in there and they’d bring us […]
They had a garden where the Tom Uphill Home sits right now. The Coal Company owned that land and I remember they’d take $1 a year off his […]
In 1922, as Florence became estranged from her husband Charlie, she was given work as the Picariello’s housekeeper and looked after the younger children.
Lawson was the former Fernie Police Chief and was hired in spring 1922 by the APP for his knowledge of bootleggers in the region. He targeted Emilio Picariello […]
Alberta Provincial Police barracks, Coleman, Alberta, 1922. The barracks was Constable Stephen Lawson’s home. Bootlegger Emilio Picariello went there to report on his son Stephen’s condition – he […]
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.
