Is this true about the UK..?

wackjonny wrote:In the early years of English colonisation North America/Canada drove on the left!

Bet ya didn't know that...?

so they had motorcycles then ?

gary2112 wrote:Hmm.. only problem is he's driving on the wrong side of the road...lol

Despite the developments in the US,Canada continued to drive on the left until shortly after the Second World War.

wackjonny wrote:

gary2112 wrote:Hmm.. only problem is he's driving on the wrong side of the road...lol

Despite the developments in the US,Canada continued to drive on the left until shortly after the Second World War.

so ?

wackjonny wrote:

gary2112 wrote:Hmm.. only problem is he's driving on the wrong side of the road...lol

Despite the developments in the US,Canada continued to drive on the left until shortly after the Second World War.

Did Canada ever drive on the left?
Yes, until the 1920s in some areas, but never in Ontario or Quebec.

Ontario and Quebec have always driven on the right because the first European settlements in these areas were French. (There were of course plenty of native people living there before the French arrived, but in this as in other things, Europeans made the rules.) In the early European conquest of North America, the French controlled the interior from Quebec all the way to Louisiana, and drove on the right. The English occupied the coast and drove on the left in Atlantic Canada and probably in New England. When the English won control of Quebec from France, the French people living there were permitted to retain many customs, including their language, religion, civil law, and evidently the custom of driving on the right. Settlement continued to spread inland across the continent, remaining on the right-hand side of the road.

British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces, however, were administered separately from Upper and Lower Canada, and even after Confederation remained staunchly English and on the left side of the road. They switched to the right in the 1920s in order to conform with the rest of Canada and the USA:

British Columbia: 1 January 1922
New Brunswick: 1 December 1922
Nova Scotia: 15 April 1923
Prince Edward Island: 1 May 1924
Newfoundland drove on the