Subject: Canadian drivers<br/>
Date: Sep 23, 2003 @ 23:55<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1794839132">BC, NB, NS & PEI drove on the left. The others on the right.<br/>
Newfoundland drove on the left until 1947, then joined Canada in 1949.<br/>
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Central Canada and the Prairie provinces were influenced by French civil <br/>
law, hence kept right. Newfoundland, the Maritimes and BC were 3 colonies <br/>
not ruled from or through Canada and were thus influenced only by English <br/>
law, and so kept left.<br/>
Dates of changes:<br/>
BC interior 0000h Thu 15 Jul 1920<br/>
BC coast 0600 Sun 1 Jan 1922<br/>
NB 0000 Fri 1 Dec 1922<br/>
NS 0200 Sun 15 Apr 1923<br/>
PEI 0000 Thu 1 May 1924<br/>
NFD 0000 Thu 2 Jan 1947<br/>
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One can see the changes happened first with the provinces bordering on he <br/>
right-driving provinces, or the US, then progressed to the more isolated ones.<br/>
see pp54-84 of Kincaid, Peter, &quot;The rule of the Road&quot;, Greenwood Press, NY, <br/>
1986<br/>
<br/>
Brendan</div>