Building Outlook's $1,000,000 Bridge

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Front: A bridge foundation support column is covered in scaffolding. A crew of labourers shovel the ground and send the soil down a shoot to lower ground. The South Saskatchewan River can be seen in the background. "The contract for the Canadian Pacific Railway bridge was awarded January 24th, 1910 to J.D. McArthur and Company. After the Provincial Government decided not to build an attached traffic bridge, the work began. The C.P.R. then decided to re-machine the steel from the old Lachine Bridge in Quebec to use in Outlook. When the birdge was completed in spanned three quarters of a mile long and over 156 feet high and cost one million dollars. This structure would then be the second largest railway bridge in Canada. The bridge formally opened on October 23rd, 1912 with the first train to cross coming from the west. The last officialy train to cross the bridge was on March 16th, 1987." Source: https://townofoutlook.ca/recreation/sky_trail.html Back: