The Malahat Highway on Vancouver Island is a lot different than it used to be — looking back over a century ago, it's like night and day.
The Malahat Highway on Vancouver Island is a lot different than it used to be — looking back over a century ago, it’s like night and day.
After finding rare, black-and-white footage of the popular road online, car aficionado Park shifted into drive and crafted a documentary called“I stumbled upon the video of the Duchess of Connaught and her car tour of the newly-built Malahat Road in 1912, and the video was fascinating to me because there’s very little film footage from the early 1900s of cars on Canadian roads,” Park told CHEK News.
The Malahat Highway is surrounded by heavy forest and steep cliffs north of Victoria, with viewpoints providing scenic vistas. Perhaps what’s steering people to watch their doc is a desire to learn more about the past “and realize how easy we’ve got it now,” said Park.in recent years, washouts“Those old cars, they didn’t have very good breaks, they didn’t have very good tires, they had wooden wheels,” explained Park.
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