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Swing Bridge Monitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada  by Marcus

Swing Bridge Monitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada Stock Image

by Marcus

Description

The bridge across a narrow channel separating Manitoulin Island from the much smaller Goat Island, forming the only land access. It consists of two 21 m (70 ft) deck plate girder approaches on the north end (Goat Island) and a single 18 m (60 ft) deck plate girder approach on the south end (Manitoulin Island), with a 112 m (368 ft) through swing bridge span. The swing bridge sits 5.3 m (17.5 ft) above mean water level, and provides a 48 m (160 ft) opening on either side of the central pier for water passage. Construction of the bridge was started by the Algoma Eastern Railway with the abutments and piers being built in 1912 and the bridge structure being erected in 1913. The Algoma Eastern Railway began operating trains across the bridge to the community of Little Current in October 1913.

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Keywords

  • Manitoulin Island
  • Ontario
  • Summer
  • Running Water
  • Swing Bridge
  • Bridge
  • Cloudscape
  • Water
  • Canada