Fernie at War: 1914 - 1919 by Wayne Norton

Content: non fiction, history. As a resource-based economy with unusually large and varied immigrant population and exceptionally high recruitment levels, Fernie BC was profoundly affected by conflicting impulses of labour, loyalty and ethnicity. The internment of enemy aliens, controversies surrounding prohibition and moral reform, the consequences of natural and man-made disasters, the unprecedented banning of recruitment and the turmoil of the western labour revolt all contributed to a war-time experience far more dramatic and revealing of underlying tensions than that experienced by any other community in Canada.

224 pages, bibliography, endnotes, index