Friday, December 23, 2016

History - First Automobile to Fish Lake (Lac Le Jeune) - 1910

Frank Kulick in Ford race car, about 1910
Ford race car, about 1910, cc by-nc-sa


P. Herod’s new Ford automobile has the record of being the first machine to make the trip from this city to Fish Lake. With Laverne Herod driving, the auto made the run out in an hour and thirty minutes, which is considered exceptionally fast time.

Kamloops Inland Sentinel – 03 June 1910 – p. 08 – Friday (Weekly) - (From Wednesday’s Daily) Newspaper read at Thompson Rivers University Library

~ submitted by Neil Burton ~

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