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Label, Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Company

Label for a beer bottle; Fernie Old Ale.

Photographer: Unknown
Columbia Basin Institute, 0017.0003

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 less than 5% liquor content for the short period in which Prohibition was enacted in BC in 1917.  The province became the first to repeal the legislation in 1921.