The Marvellous Inventions of Barney Oldfield (1913-1978)

You can be forgiven if National Inventors’ Day (February 11) passed you by yesterday, but it gives me a great excuse to write about one of British Columbia’s own treasures.

Horace Basil (Barney) Oldfield was a mechanical genius and inventor who lived most of his life in Saanich, just outside of Victoria. He and brother Brian founded the Prospect Lake Garage in 1934 on Old West Saanich Road, which amazingly still operates as a family-run business.

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