Fort Nelson Heritage Museum -- BC

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A few days ago I got to see a 101 year old car that had driven from Ft. Nelson to Whitehorse and back, a distance of nearly 1200 miles that go through mountains along the way! I got to see this at the Heritage Museum in Ft. Nelson which has a nice little inside museum as well as a lot of old equipment and cars. With the equipment we saw some of the bulldozers that built the Alaska Highway, some old tractors of several designs, and a few cars, most of which were still mainly intact and more or less recognizable.

We saw most of those when we were walking around outside and getting slightly cold...but when we were inside a car "shed" which was more like a barn, we saw at least 15 cars from various times that were all still running.

One of the cars we saw was an old Studebaker Champion with a bullet nose like the one that gets painted lots of wild colors in The Muppet Movie. Along one wall there was a whole line of old Ford Model T's and some Model A's as well. That was also the place where I saw the 101 yr old car that was still running.

This museum is a place that definitely should be visited by every family, and you should take a walk around the place as well.