Subject: Businesses
Fernie BC in Ruins after the Fire Aug. 1, 1908.
Unused sepia real photo postcard of ruins of business blocks in Fernie BC after the Fire Aug. 1, 1908. Velox style stampbox in use 1907-1920.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0263 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | August 1st 1908 |
Fernie BC in Ruins after the Fire Aug. 1, 1908.
Unused sepia real photo postcard of ruins of business blocks in Fernie BC after the Fire Aug. 1, 1908. Velox style stampbox in use 1907-1920.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0264 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | August 1st 1908 |
Fernie Lumber Company
Newspaper excerpt Fernie Free Press - Fernie Lumber Company sold its entire lumber cut for the season to a Winnipeg wholesale dealer.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0962 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | April 27th 1905 |
Scott Fruit Company, Ltd., Fernie
Photo of people standing on the street outside the Scott Fruit Company Ltd. building in Fernie, BC. Many different trucks and cars are also shown.
| Internal ID: | 0454.0072 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 0000 |
Fernie Overview
A look at the back side of the business district, with Mount Fernie and the Three Sisters in the background. The text on the back of the postcard is interesting: "This is where I am working now. Fernie is 3,000 ft. above the sea. The town was burnt down last fall & the bank is a small wood shanty in which we sleep, with the safe between the beds & our guns under our pillow. I stand at the counter with all the large blls in my pocket & the $5.00, 2.00 & 1.00 on the plank & my silver in tobacco tins. A flannel shirt, a pair of trousers & a belt with a gun poked in my hip pocket & my pipe in my mouth. Quite a good way to do banking."
| Internal ID: | 0039.0407 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1906 |
Fernie Overview
A look at the back side of the business district, with Mount Fernie and the Three Sisters in the background. The text on the back of the postcard is interesting: "This is where I am working now. Fernie is 3,000 ft. above the sea. The town was burnt down last fall & the bank is a small wood shanty in which we sleep, with the safe between the beds & our guns under our pillow. I stand at the counter with all the large blls in my pocket & the $5.00, 2.00 & 1.00 on the plank & my silver in tobacco tins. A flannel shirt, a pair of trousers & a belt with a gun poked in my hip pocket & my pipe in my mouth. Quite a good way to do banking."
| Internal ID: | 0039.0408 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1906 |
Dominion Express Co., Fernie, B.C.
Dominion Express Co., Fernie, B.C.; Ca. 1900. Photo shows a group of what appear to be employees for the company. From the number of firearms they appear to be serious about their work.
| Internal ID: | 0304.0001 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1900 |
Fernie Imperial Bank
Plans and specifications for new Imperial Bank buildings in Fernie and Cranbrook now available for contractors to see.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0778 |
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| Medium: | Manuscript |
| Date: | July 8th 1909 |
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Canadian Bank of Commerce in Fernie (addressed to Canadian Bank of Commerce, Fort Steele, BC, postal cancel May 9, 1900).
| Internal ID: | 0039.0413 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1900 |
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Canadian Bank of Commerce in Fernie (addressed to Canadian Bank of Commerce, Fort Steele, BC, postal cancel May 9, 1900).
| Internal ID: | 0039.0414 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1900 |
Fernie Canadian Bank of Commerce
Fernie, Canadian Bank of Commerce (addressed to Joe C. Blake, Skookumchuk, B.C., Fernie postal cancel Nov. 17, 1955.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0419 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1955 |
Fernie Canadian Bank of Commerce
Fernie, Canadian Bank of Commerce (addressed to Joe C. Blake, Skookumchuk, B.C., Fernie postal cancel Nov. 17, 1955.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0420 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1955 |
Bank of Commerce
New bank managers arriving in Fernie and Cranbrook.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0246 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 4th 1898 |
Bank of Commerce
Convention being held in town for heads of Bank of Commerce branches in the Kootenays.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0291 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 24th 1926 |
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Newspaper excerpt from Fernie Free Press - reporting Fernie Bank of Commerce employee in Cranbrook to relieve part of the staff.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0481 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 31st 1901 |
Dave Black
Newspaper excerpt Fernie Free Press - Dave Black takes over insurance business of Fred Johnson and his office is equipped for handling general insurance lines.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0644 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 3rd 1922 |
Dave Black
Newspaper excerpt Fernie Free Press - David Black and Thos. Beck join forces in the insurance business with one covering fire and one life insurances under the name of Fernie Insurance Agencies.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0672 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 8th 1922 |
Michael Phillipps
Fruitland Orchards owner gets interviewed as the first person to lay out commercial orchards in the area.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0494 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | April 18th 1912 |
Cranbrook Credit Bureau, establishing a division office
Cranbrook Credit Bureau, establishing a division office
| Internal ID: | 0042.0135 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 25th 1926 |
Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Co. Label
Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Company beer bottle label for Fernie Old Ale, brewed in Fernie.
| Internal ID: | 0017.0003 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Co. Label
A beer label for Fernie Beer from the Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Co., in Fernie, B.C.
| Internal ID: | 0017.0004 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Change to Provincial Police
Mayor and five Aldermen resign in what they consider is a vote of nonconfidence in their contemplating changing to provincial policing. Telegrams from many cities received favoring provincial policing, but petition of local citizens against it; mostly hotel owners and bootleggers.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0138 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | February 12th 1931 |
Fritz Sick
Former resident visits Cranbrook prior to move to the coast.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0577 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 6th 1930 |
Cranbrook Brewery
Possible opening of a brewery in Cranbrook.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0158 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | April 4th 1901 |
Fernie Brewery
On the closing of the sale of Fernie Brewery.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0159 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | April 4th 1901 |
Fernie Brewery
New brewery in Fernie near completion.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0445 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 3rd 1901 |
Fort Steele Notes
Reports from Fort Steele on comings and goings of local citizens. One report was Col. Sam Steele was laid up in Cape Town with entric fever.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0462 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 31st 1901 |
Workers Strike
A strike held by workers of Fort Steele Brewery demanding raise in pay.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0620 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 3rd 1905 |
First Bonspiel
Preparations moving forward rapidly for the first annual bonspiel of British Columbia Curling Association.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0127 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 17th 1907 |
Fort Steele Brewing Company
Fort Steele Brewing Co. in Fernie manufactures and brews extra fine beer and porter by the barrel, keg or bottle.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0235 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 28th 1906 |
Albert Mutz
Old timer and former director of Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Company states he sold his hotel in Vulcan, Alberta.
| Internal ID: | 0053.0060 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 24th 1930 |
Cranbrook Typographical Union
Cranbrook Herald now entitled to union label and officers of the union elected, although the wages will stay the same as Herald was already paying the going wage.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0198 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 22nd 1907 |
Courier Changes to T&C
Distribution of Cranbrook Courier in conjunction with the Daily Townsman in Cranbrook and the Daily Bulletin in Kimberley, will give subscribers the Courier Town and Country with their daily papers.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0358 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 12th 1973 |
La Fleur Disappears As Columnist
Announcing other changes to the format of Cranbrook Courier, which will distribute throughout the whole East Kootenay alone or in conjunction with other area papers.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0361 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 12th 1973 |
Cranbrook Rotary
Cranbrook Rotary meeting featured two guests, the first Cranbrooks undertaker and the second a printer.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0561 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 14th 1922 |
Ledge Office
Reporting the move of "Ledge" offices, where walls are thick and mice can't break in. Also noting cost of printers' ink.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0613 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 3rd 1905 |
Victoria Avenue Looking North, Fernie, BC
Used B&W printed postcard of Victoria Avenue in Fernie, BC looking north in the winter. A busy street scene centered by a two horse team pulling cutter, with Trites-Wood Department Store to the left and N.E. Suddaby Drugstore to the right. Photo taken prior to the Great Fernie Fire of Aug. 1, 1908.
| Internal ID: | 0017.0139 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1907 |
Victoria Avenue Looking North, Fernie, BC
Used B&W printed postcard of Victoria Avenue in Fernie, BC looking north in the winter. A busy street scene centered by a two horse team pulling cutter, with Trites-Wood Department Store to the left and N.E. Suddaby Drugstore to the right. Photo taken prior to the Great Fernie Fire of Aug. 1, 1908.
| Internal ID: | 0017.0140 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1907 |
View Looking North, 2 Months After Great Fire of Aug. 1, 1908, Fernie, BC
Used B&W printed postcard of view looking North, 2 months after Great Fire of Aug. 1, 1908, Fernie, BC. Trites Wood Company on Victoria Avenue in foreground with reconstruction in background. Printed in Saxony. Fernie circle date postal stamp cancel Apr.23, 1910.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0287 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | October 1st 1908 |
View Looking North, 2 Months After Great Fire of Aug. 1, 1908, Fernie, BC
Used B&W printed postcard of view looking North, 2 months after Great Fire of Aug. 1, 1908, Fernie, BC. Trites Wood Company on Victoria Avenue in foreground with reconstruction in background. Printed in Saxony. Fernie circle date postal stamp cancel Apr.23, 1910.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0288 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | October 1st 1908 |
Victoria Avenue in Winter, Fernie BC
Unused B&W real photo postcard of Victoria Avenue (2nd Ave) in Fernie, BC in the wintertime. Shows automobile and horse drawn sleigh with Trites Wood Department Store on right hand side of street and Napanee Hotel on the left. AZO stampbox in use 1924-1949.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0327 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1945 |
Victoria Avenue in Winter, Fernie BC
Unused B&W real photo postcard of Victoria Avenue (2nd Ave) in Fernie, BC in the wintertime. Shows automobile and horse drawn sleigh with Trites Wood Department Store on right hand side of street and Napanee Hotel on the left. AZO stampbox in use 1924-1949.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0328 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1945 |
Fernie Store
Fernie's ongoing race to prosperity with another store being built.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0611 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 3rd 1905 |
Damage Report
Article describing massive losses to residents and companies in Fernie Fire.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0908 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 8th 1908 |
Rebuilding the Crow's Nest Trading Co.'s New Store in Fernie, 1908.
Unused sepia real photo postcard of a crew rebuilding the Crow's Nest Trading Co.'s new store after the great fire of Aug. 1, 1908 in Fernie, BC. Velox stampbox style in use 1907-1911.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0259 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1908 |
Rebuilding the Crow's Nest Trading Co.'s New Store in Fernie, 1908.
Unused sepia real photo postcard of a crew rebuilding the Crow's Nest Trading Co.'s new store after the great fire of Aug. 1, 1908 in Fernie, BC. Velox stampbox style in use 1907-1911.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0260 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1908 |
Crow's Nest Trading Company Rebuilding 3 Days After the Fernie BC Fire of Aug. 1,...
Unused sepia real photo postcard of the rebuilding of the Crow's Nest Trading Company building three days after the Fernie fire of Aug. 1, 1908. Showing surveyor's equipment, rebuilt floor and stack of lumber with building ruins in background. Velox stampbox style in use 1907-1910.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0279 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | August 4th 1908 |
Crow's Nest Trading Company Rebuilding 3 Days After the Fernie BC Fire of Aug. 1,...
Unused sepia real photo postcard of the rebuilding of the Crow's Nest Trading Company building three days after the Fernie fire of Aug. 1, 1908. Showing surveyor's equipment, rebuilt floor and stack of lumber with building ruins in background. Velox stampbox style in use 1907-1910.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0280 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | August 4th 1908 |
Auto Accident
Former Fernie man killed in automobile accident.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0530 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 3rd 1931 |
Fernie,B.C.
Victoria Avenue, downtown Fernie, B.C. The Rahal Brothers store and the Northern Hotel are visible to the right.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0329 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1935 |
Fernie,B.C.
Victoria Avenue, downtown Fernie, B.C. The Rahal Brothers store and the Northern Hotel are visible to the right.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0330 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1935 |
East Kootenay Power Company, Limited
East Kootenay Power Company, Fernie, envelope with postal cancel June 28, 1965, envelope front.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0422 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1965 |
London & Liverpool
Newspaper excerpt from Fernie Free Press - reporting strange accident in the London & Liverpool store, where a lady almost lost her eye from a cat while trying on clothing.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0490 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 31st 1901 |
Fernie, B.C.
ALBUM Victoria Avenue, Fernie, B.C. REFERENCED WITH #0433.0001
| Internal ID: | 0433.0019 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1910 |
Fernie Hotel in Fernie, B.C.
A frontal view of the Fernie Hotel in 1914.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0331 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1914 |
Fernie Hotel in Fernie, B.C.
A frontal view of the Fernie Hotel in 1914.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0332 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1914 |
Mar-Eve Auto Court, Fernie, B.C.,
The Mar-Eve Auto Court in Fernie, B.C., with individual cabins as they were built 30 years earlier. Postcard front, linked to 0039.0336.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0335 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1960 |
Mar-Eve Auto Court, Fernie, B.C.,
The Mar-Eve Auto Court in Fernie, B.C., with individual cabins as they were built 30 years earlier. Postcard front, linked to 0039.0336.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0336 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1960 |
Queen's Free Employment Bureau
Letterhead for Queen's Free Employment Bureau in Fernie, BC.
| Internal ID: | 0212.0014 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1909 |
Great Northern Hotel
An envelope from the Great Northern Hotel in Fernie, with a Picher Creek, AB cancellation on the back.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0411 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1908 |
Great Northern Hotel
An envelope from the Great Northern Hotel in Fernie, with a Picher Creek, AB cancellation on the back.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0412 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1908 |
Fernie Autoists
Newspaper excerpt Fernie Free Press - well-known and highly respected young couple in Fernie get married and they left on their wedding tour for Spokane, Seattle, Vancouver etc by train.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0447 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 16th 1922 |
Fernie Masons
A new Masonic lodge instituted at Fernie.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0452 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 17th 1901 |
St. Eugene Hospital
Reporting on young lady just released from St. Eugene's hospital after a bout of measles.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0358 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 2nd 1900 |
Roma Hotel Robbery
Fernie Roma Hotel robbed of several hundred dollars in cash, thought to be perpetrated by a party familiar with the place.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0632 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 20th 1930 |
Cranbrook Cemetery
Mr. Mills, proprietor of Kings Hotel in Fernie, visits Cranbrook to erect a monument to the memory of his brother who was killed in St. Eugene mine.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0568 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 21st 1922 |
Fernie Rotary
Newspaper excerpts Fernie Free Press - Fernies new Rotary Club gets first visit from Governor of Rotary, and results of final judging in the Fernie Beautiful Contest.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0602 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 8th 1922 |
Dr. Archibald
To operate drugstore in Fernie.
| Internal ID: | 0054.0285 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 19th 1902 |
N.E. Suddaby Drug and Book Store, Fernie, BC
Unused sepia real photo postcard of N.E. Suddaby Drug and Book Store in Fernie, BC. "H.W. Herchmer, Barrister" signs in 2nd floor windows. ? C. Kenny Merchant Tailor building to right and cigar store to left. Wall Paper advertising sign above front door. Velox style stampbox in use 1907-1911.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0257 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1907 |
N.E. Suddaby Drug and Book Store, Fernie, BC
Unused sepia real photo postcard of N.E. Suddaby Drug and Book Store in Fernie, BC. "H.W. Herchmer, Barrister" signs in 2nd floor windows. ? C. Kenny Merchant Tailor building to right and cigar store to left. Wall Paper advertising sign above front door. Velox style stampbox in use 1907-1911.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0258 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1907 |
N.E. Suddaby Drugs, Fernie
Fernie, untitled, handwritten note on back "N.E. Suddaby Drugs, Fernie B.C.". Store Interior.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0429 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 0000 |
N.E. Suddaby Drugs, Fernie
Fernie, untitled, handwritten note on back "N.E. Suddaby Drugs, Fernie B.C.". Store Interior.
| Internal ID: | 0039.0430 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 0000 |
