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The De la Concorde overpass collapse occurred at a bridge over Quebec Autoroute 19 in Laval, Quebec, Canada, at midday on September 30, 2006.On that Saturday, around 12:30 pm, the centre section of the south lane of an overpass (65-foot or 19.8-metre section of a three-lane overpass) [1] collapsed in Laval, a suburb of Montreal, on Boulevard de la Concorde running over Autoroute 19.
The Quebec Bridge (French: pont de Québec) is a road, rail, and pedestrian bridge across the lower Saint Lawrence River between Sainte-Foy (a former suburb that in 2002 became the arrondissement Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge in Quebec City) and Lévis, in Quebec, Canada. The project failed twice during its construction, in 1907 and 1916, at ...
A 400-foot (120 m) section of bridge collapsed onto freighter and into the river. Four cars drove off bridge 12 killed (7 ship crewman and 5 motorists) 2 pylons and three sections of bridge collapsed, ore freighter sank, 4 cars fell into river City of Hobart was split in two.
A century-old rail lift bridge that crosses the U.S.-Canada border near the cities of International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, has collapsed, and it's unclear when the area will ...
Year Structure Location Type Casualties 1900: 1900 Big Game disaster: San Francisco, California, United States : Factory: 23 dead, 100+ injured 1902: St. Mark's Campanile: Venice, Italy
Category: Bridge disasters in Canada. ... 1907 Quebec Bridge collapse; 1916 Quebec Bridge collapse; B. Beloeil train disaster; Boulevard du Souvenir overpass collapse; D.
The Heron Road Workers Memorial Bridge. The Heron Road Workers Memorial Bridge (formerly the Heron Road Bridge) is a bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It connects Baseline Road to Heron Road and allows east–west traffic to cross both the Rideau River and the Rideau Canal just south of Carleton University. The current bridge was finished in ...
First Quebec Bridge collapse: Bridge collapse: Quebec City, Quebec 75 1958 Third Springhill mining disaster: Coal mine bump: Springhill, Nova Scotia 74 2018 2018 North American heat wave: Heat wave: Quebec and Ontario [21] 73-200 1911 Great Porcupine Fire: Forest fire: Porcupine, Ontario 70 1903 Frank Slide: Rockslide