Car Life Museum - July 2nd, 2024

When our AMCM employees travel, we like to check out other car museums and collections and share them with you. While in Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada, we stopped by the Car Life Museum in Bonshaw, located about twenty minutes east of the capital of Charlottetown. This is the only car museum in Prince Edward Island and is open from mid-June until mid-September, seven days a week, from 10 AM to 6 PM.
The first horseless carriage was on the island in 1866, but from 1908 to 1913, cars were banned (all seven of them) for fear of scaring horses and livestock. In 1913, newly elected Premier John A. Mathieson's party passed a resolution allowing automobiles to be driven around three days a week - Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Many locals disliked the cars, and there are tales of people putting old mower blades, planks with spikes, or even barbed wire on the roads where vehicles were allowed. Cars were given unlimited access to all P.E.I. roads every day of the week in 1919.

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I am not sure if that 59 Cadillac was a car that was used to pick up Elvis while on tour. He did not tour during the 60’s, his last live performance was a 1961 benefit show in Hawaii to raise money for the Arizona Memorial. The rest of the 60s he was making movies. Yes he did like Cadillacs but when he started doing live performances in 1969 I doubt he was driven in this 1959 Cadillac.