Fort Nelson Historical Museum in Fort Nelson, BC

Thursday, June 14, 2017

The Fort Nelson Heritage Museum is located next door to the Tripe G RV park where we are staying, so it was an easy walk over to visit.

They had not yet opened, so we wandered around outside looking at some of the vehicles of the time of the construction of the Alcan highway.

 Notice the turn signal?

This was a Ford made in Canada - 1942 4x4, flathead V8.

Used crankshaft and piston assemblies from 16 cylinder power plant.  They had been in service for 11 years running 24/7 before failing.

The museum is still not open for admission, but we found this building open and some local men who evidently keep a number of old vehicles running.  This Buick for example had been driven from Fort Nelson, BC, to Whitehorse, YT in 2008.

May not have had anything to do with the Alcan, but a nice 1942 Harley Davidson model 45.

This gentleman demonstrated this vehicle to us, sorry, took videos for ourselves, since Blogger won't permit us to upload.

He primed the fuel from a small oiler can, then hand cranked it to start it running.  Single cylinder, water cooled, top speed of 17MPH.  He pointed out that it was on a jack stand, and that the rear wheel was spinning.  All the men were very gracious and anxious to help or explain.

Time has come to go inside the museum.

 Not huge, but a LOT of stuff to look at in here.  A person could spend hours in a short space, there was so much to see.

 I'm not pointing out anything specific here, just the variety of items.

 Several rooms and still more outside.

The sign with the canoe said it was made from a single piece of spruce bark.

 Lilacs about to be in full bloom, very fragrant.

More springtime flowers.