The Story of Italians in Fernie, 1881 - 1921 The Story of Italians in Fernie, 1881 - 1921 Fernie Museum
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 […]
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. […]
She was a friend of the Picariello family and married Charles Lassandro who worked for Emilio Picariello in Fernie in his legitimate businesses and, later, at the Alberta […]
He was one of the most successful bootleggers in the Crowsnest Pass, which made him a target of both rivals and police, as did his Italian ancestry.
Many hotels generated more revenue through the sale of liquor than by room rentals and meals. In BC, the Merchants’ Protective Association, comprising hoteliers and liquor industry people, […]
The Brewery was the largest in the region and one of its founders, Fritz Sick moved to Lethbridge and established the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Company.
The “Black Hand Society” cases were held at the Fernie Courthouse with Judge Wilson presiding. Sherwood Herchmer, a prominent Fernie lawyer, acted as defence counsel. The case received […]
Working men generally opposed Temperance, and the Union Local in Michel, BC in August 1917 passed a motion that their members needed liquor to continue working.
Liquor was seen as the cause of poverty and crime by followers of the Social Gospel movement led by Protestant churches in North America in the late nineteenth […]
