Fernie, British Columbia
Fernie downtown, Three Sisters and Mt. Proctor
Motto: "In montibus ad flumen"  (Latin) "In the mountains by the river"
Coordinates: 49°30′N, 115°03′W
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Established	1904
Government
- City Mayor	Randal Macnair
- Governing body	Fernie City Council
- MP	Jim Abbott
- MLA	Bill Bennett
Area
- City	16.05 km²  (6.20 sq mi)
Elevation	1,010 m (3,314 ft)
Population (2006)
- City	4,217 Ranked 777th
- Density	287.3/km² (744.1/sq mi)
- Metro	6,595
Time zone	Mountain Standard (MST) (UTC-7)
Postal code span	V0B 1M(0-6)
Area code(s)	250
Website: City of Fernie

The City of Fernie is located in the southeast corner of British Columbia, Canada, surrounded by the Canadian Rockies. Founded in 1898 and incorporated in July 1904, the municipality presently has a population of exactly 4,217 although the population drastically increases throughout the winter. An additional 1,873 live outside city limits under the jurisdiction of the RDEK. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1617 KB) Summary Fernie downtown, with Three Sisters and Mt. ... A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (713x698, 57 KB) Summary Fernie, location. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ... Canada consists of ten provinces and three territories. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_British_Columbia. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area Ranked 4th - Total 944,735 km... The House of Commons (French: Chambre des communes) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate. ... Jim Abbott (born August 18, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Conservative member of Canadas House of Commons. ... Legislature Building in Victoria, BC The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is located in Victoria. ... William Bennett (born 1950) is a Canadian politician. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The or meter (see spelling differences) is a measure of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. ... The below table is a list of the 100 largest cities (or municipalities) in Canada. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Metropolitan area in Western Tokyo as seen from Tokyo Tower A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... MST is UTC-7 The Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC-7. ... −12 | −11 | −10 | −9:30 | −9 | −8 | −7 | −6 | −5 | −4 | −3:30 | −3 | −2:30 | −2 | −1 | −0:25 | UTC (0) | +0:20 | +0:30 | +1 | +2 | +3 | +3:30 | +4 | +4:30 | +4:51 | +5 | +5:30 | +5:40 | +5:45 | +6 | +6:30 | +7 | +7:20 | +7... A Canadian postal code is a string of six characters that form part of a postal address in Canada. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area Ranked 4th - Total 944,735 km... The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada. ...

Fernie lies on the Elk River, along Canada's southernmost east-west transportation corridor through the Rockies that crosses the range via the Crowsnest Pass, 40 kilometres (25 mi) to the east. As the largest and oldest community in the immediate area, Fernie serves as something of a regional centre. The Elk River is a 119-mile river, originating in the Rocky Mountains of eastern British Columbia, Canada. ... Freight train, Crowsnest Pass. ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ...

Geography

Fernie is the only city-class municipality in Canada that is fully encircled by the Rocky Mountains. To the north of the city lies Mount Fernie, Mount Klauer, Mount Trinity (most commonly known as the Three Sisters) and Mount Proctor. To the northeast is Mount Hosmer, to the east Fernie Ridge, to the southeast Morrissey Ridge (including Castle Mountain) and to the southwest the various peaks of the Lizard Range. Mt. ... Mount Trinity, also gazetted (and more commonly known) as The Three Sisters, is a mountain immediately north of Fernie, British Columbia. ... Mount Proctor is a mountain in British Columbia, Canada 2393m located near Fernie and part of the Lizard Range (along with Mount Fernie and Three Sisters). ... Mount Hosmer is a mountain in British Columbia, Canada. ... Castle Mountain is a mountain in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. ...

The Lizard Range is home to Fernie Alpine Resort, one of the largest ski resorts in Canada, and the noted backcountry resort of Island Lake Lodge. Unique weather patterns tend to bring much more precipitation to the area than one might typically find this far inland, making the area a mecca for powder skiing. Fernie Alpine Resort is an Alpine ski resort, located near the town of Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. ... St. ...

Summer in Fernie is generally far quieter than the winter months, though mountain biking, fly fishing and golf are increasingly important tourist draws. Mountain biker riding in the Arizona desert. ... Fly rod and reel with a wild brown trout from a chalk stream. ... Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and also is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ...

Mining History

While the slopes of the mountains are presently the focus of economic activity, until comparatively recently residents of the area were more interested with the mountains' innards. The vast Crowsnest Coal Field lies just to east of the city, and Fernie owes its origins to nineteenth-century prospector William Fernie, who established the coal industry that continues to exist to this day. Acting on pioneer Michael Phillipps's twin discoveries of coal and the Crowsnest Pass a few years earlier, Fernie founded the Crows Nest Pass Coal Company in 1897 and set to work at once. A townsite was laid out at a broad bend in the valley where the Elk River is intersected by its tributaries Coal, Lizard and Fairy Creeks; the Canadian Pacific Railway was built through the valley shortly thereafter and a downtown core emerged parallel to it. Underground coal mines were dug 10 kilometres (6 mi) away from the townsite in the narrow Coal Creek valley and until 1960 a small satellite community known as Coal Creek stood adjacent to them. A variety of other mines were sunk into the coal fields in a fifty kilometer radius in the following two decades. No mining was ever carried out in Fernie proper; coking of Coal Creek coal was carried out at the townsite, but otherwise the town developed into an administrative and commercial centre for the burgeoning industry. Forestry played a smaller role in the local economy and a local brewery produced Fernie Beer from brewery creek (mountain spring water). William Fernie may be: William Willie Fernie, Scottish golfer. ... Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel formed in swamp ecosystems where plant remains were saved by water and mud from oxidization and biodegradation. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... An eastbound CPR freight at Stoney Creek Bridge in Rogers Pass. ... This article is about mineral extraction. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Coke Coke is a solid carbonaceous material derived from destructive distillation of low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal. ... A decidous beech forest in Slovenia. ... The entrance of a brewery. ... The Columbia Brewery, located in Creston, British Columbia, was once a part of the Fort Steele Brewery which opened in 1898 by brewmaster Albert Mutz. ...

Like most single-industry towns, Fernie endured several boom-and-bust cycles throughout the twentieth century, generally tied to the global price of coal. The mines at Coal Creek closed permanently by 1960 and the focus of mining activity shifted to Michel and Natal about twenty-five kilometres (15 mi) upriver, which sat on a more productive portion of the Crowsnest Coal Field. Kaiser Resources opened immense open-pit mines there in the 1970s to meet new thermal coal contracts for the Asian industrial market, predominantly for use in blast furnaces. Fernie would remain an important residential base for mine labour, along with the new communities of Sparwood and Elkford that sprung up much closer to these new mines. Today, Fording Canadian Coal Trust operates all five open-pit mines, shipping out unit trains (often with more than 100 cars) along the Canadian Pacific Railway through Fernie to the Pacific Coast, where the coal is loaded onto freighters at Roberts Bank Superport in Delta. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... El Chino, located near Silver City, New Mexico, is an open-pit copper mine Open-pit mining, or opencast mining, refers to a method of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. ... Blast furnace in Sestao, Spain. ... Sparwood is a town in British Columbia, Canada. ... , Elkford is a small community in southeast British Columbia. ... Roberts Bank Superport Roberts Bank Superport is a major commercial port located in Tsawwassen, British Columbia. ... Delta is a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada. ...

Architectural Heritage

Courthouse - Fernie, BC.

After a disastrous fire leveled much of the downtown core in 1904, the fledgling municipal government passed an ordinance requiring all buildings in the area to be built of 'fireproof' materials like brick and stone. Consequently, a new city centre rose from the ashes sporting brick buildings along broad avenues that would have looked more at home in a sedate and refined Victorian city rather than a rough-and-tumble frontier coal town. They were short-lived, however, as a second, larger inferno swept through the city on August 1, 1908. Whipped up by sudden winds, a nearby forest fire burnt its way into a lumber yard on the edge of the community and sparked a Dresden-style firestorm that melted brick and mortar and essentially erased the entire city in an afternoon. There were few casualties, however, and for a second time a stately brick downtown core rose from the ashes. Today, these historic buildings, most of which still stand, are a treasured and distinctive feature of the community. Photo of Fernie courthouse, British Columbia taken by Michael Rogers 2004. ... Photo of Fernie courthouse, British Columbia taken by Michael Rogers 2004. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Fire in San Bernardino, California Mountains (image taken from the International Space Station) A wildfire, also known as a forest fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, or bushfire (in Australasia), is an uncontrolled fire in wildland often caused by lightning; other common causes are human carelessness and arson. ... Timber in storage for later processing at a sawmill Lumber or Timber is a term used to describe wood, either standing or that has been processed for use—from the time trees are felled, to its end product as a material suitable for industrial use—as structural material for construction... Dresden (Sorbian: Drježdźany; etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Czech: ) is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Local Media

Newspapers

• Fernie Free Press - Weekly Paper
• Kootenay News Advertiser - 2 times a week (Monday, and Friday)
• East Kootenay Extra! - Weekly Paper
• Fernie Fix - Monthly Glossy Magazine

Radio Stations

• 99.1 FM - CJDR, Rock
• 92.7 FM - CFBZ, Country
• 97.7 FM - CBTN, CBC

Television Stations

• Channel 10: Shaw TV
• Channel 5: CFCN, CTV
• Channel 13: CBUT, CBC

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Notable People

The following people were born in Fernie

• Bill Lindsay, NHL Player
• Shane Churla, retired NHL player
• David LeNeveu, NHL Player
• Alex Lifeson, guitarist of Rush
• Emily Brydon, Canadian Alpine skier
• Jason Krog, NHL Player

Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... Shane Churla (born June 24, 1965, in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada) is a former National Hockey League right wing. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... David LeNeveu (born May 23, 1983 in Fernie, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for the Phoenix Coyotes organization. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ... Alex Lifeson OC (born Alexander Zivojinovich on August 27, 1953, in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada), is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock group Rush. ... Rush is a Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ... Emily Brydon (born April 27, 1980) is a Canadian alpine skier who is competing in the 2006 Winter Olympics. ... Jason Krog (born October 9, 1975 in Fernie, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ...

See also

• Isabella Dicken Elementary School, Fernie
• Max Turyk Elementary School, Fernie
• Fernie Secondary School, Fernie
• Fernie Ghostriders
• Castle Mountain
• Coal Creek
• Mount Proctor
• Mount Fernie
• Fernie Alpine Resort
• Elk River
• Elk Valley

Isabella Dicken Elementary is a public elementary school in Fernie, British Columbia part of School District 5 Southeast Kootenay. ... Max Turyk Elementary is a public elementary school in Fernie, British Columbia part of School District 5 Southeast Kootenay. ... Fernie Secondary School is a public high school in Fernie, British Columbia part of School District 5 Southeast Kootenay. ... The Fernie Ghostriders are a Canadian Junior B ice hockey team from Fernie, British Columbia playing in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. ... Castle Mountain is located in Banff National Park of the Canadian Rockies. ... Coal Creek can refer to: Coal Creek in Colorado Coal Creek Township in Indiana Coal Creek in Washington state Coal Creek in British Columbia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Mount Proctor is a mountain in British Columbia, Canada 2393m located near Fernie and part of the Lizard Range (along with Mount Fernie and Three Sisters). ... Mt. ... Fernie Alpine Resort is an Alpine ski resort, located near the town of Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. ... Elk River is the name of numerous rivers and places. ... Elk Valley is a valley in southeastern British Columbia that runs via the basin of the Elk River from the southeastern Alberta border to Mitchell BC, Sparwood, Hosmer, Fernie, Morrissey, and Cranbrook. ...

External links

• City of Fernie
• 2006 Fernie census (Community Profile)
• OurFernie Community Web Portal
• Fernie.com (Commercial Portal)
• Fernie Alpine Resort (Commercial Portal)
• Fernie Free Press
• Fernie Ghostriders
• The Fernie Fix
• Fernie's Outdoor Webcam Website

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