Fathering in the Bygone Days of P.E.I.
'You'd think it was an airplane cut loose' But when the first cars arrived on the Island after the turn of the last century, Albert bought one. And he liked to go fast! Car races were held at the Summerside horse-racing track in the early days of the automobile on P.E.I.: novelty races between the horse races. Frank Woodside inherited his father's passion for cars. (Dutch Thompson) One sunny holiday afternoon in 1917, Albert and Frank took the family's car, a Chevrolet with a big powerful engine, to the races. "Somebody engineered this here car race. There was three car...
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