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3. Lake Country Museum and Archives, “The Rule of the
Road in British Columbia” (18 January 2013),
online: <www.lakecountrymuseum.com/the-rule-ofthe
road-in-british-columbia> “The Rule of the Road
– Lake Country”.
4. SBC 1892, c 22, ss 2–3.
5. Ibid, s 5.
6. “Opposition to Change in Rule of Road”, The Daily
Colonist (1 January 1920) at 7.
7. “Press for Change in Rule of the Road: Delegation
Waits Upon Ministers and Urge That Legislature
Enact Act Altering the Present System”, The Daily
Colonist (6 January 1920) at 5; see also “Uniform
Traffic Laws Are Wanted”, The Daily Colonist (4 July
1920) at 20.
8. “Opposition to Change in Rule of Road”, supra note
6.
9. John Fulton, letter entitled “The Rule of the Road”,
The Daily Colonist (7 January 1920) at 13.
10. “The Rule of the Road”, The Daily Colonist (27 March
1920) at 4.
11. “B.C. Electric Beyond Provisions of Act”, The Daily
Colonist (14 April 1920) at 12; “New Rule of Road
Not Applicable to Company”, The Daily Colonist (13
April 1920) at 7.
12. “B.C. Electric Beyond Provisions of Act”, supra note
11.
13. Highway Act Amendment Act, SBC 1920, c 32,
ss 2–3.
14. Portland Canal Times (12 June 1920) at 1.
15. The Grand Forks Sun (28 May 1920).
16. As quoted in Kevin Griffin, “Week in History: Switching
from the Left Was the Right Thing to Do”, Vancouver
Sun (1 January 2016).
17. The Abbotsford Post (6 January 1922) at 2.
18. Supra note 15.
19. The Rule of the Road – Lake Country, supra note 3.
20. Supra note 15.
21. Griffin, supra note 16.
22. (22 July 1920) at 1.
23. As quoted in Griffin, supra note 16.
24. Supra note 17.
25. Griffin, supra note 16.
26. See World Standards, “Why Do Some Countries
Drive on the Left and Others on the Right?” (updated
13 January 2019), online: <www.worldstandards.eu
/cars/driving-on-the-left/>; Tom Geoghegan, “Could
the UK Drive on the Right?”, BBC News Magazine (7
September 2009), online: <news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
8239048.stm>.
27. World Standards, supra note 26.
28. Richard S Chang, “In Samoa, Drivers Switch to the
Left Side of the Road”, The New York Times (8 September
2009), online: <wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/
2009/09/08/in-samao-drivers-switch-to-left-sideof
the-road/>.