Red Lights in the Valley – Fernie Museum
Fernie Museum 491 2nd Avenue, Fernie, British Columbia, CanadaTurn-of-the-century Fernie was a brawling, sprawling boomtown, with all the amenities a single man could want: bars, boxing rings, pool halls, opera houses...and of course, prostitution, in the form of the "Red Lights," or Restricted District. Such districts served as workplaces and refuges for hundreds of women across the Elk Valley between Fernie's founding in 1898 and […]
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