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Coal Creek near Fernie, BC

Men and women walking along a street. Wood sided houses are on both sides

Photographer: J. F. Spalding
Fernie Museum, FMP.000026.

The date of the image is unknown.

The town of Coal Creek near Fernie, BC, nd, grew up around the mine. The 1901 census listed 69 men of Italian origin working in the mines and, by 1911, this climbed to 143.