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The Victoria Bridge (French: Pont Victoria), previously known as Victoria Jubilee Bridge, is a bridge over the St. Lawrence River, linking Montreal, Quebec, to the south shore city of Saint-Lambert. Opened in 1859, originally as a tubular bridge designed by Robert Stephenson , the bridge was the first to span the St. Lawrence River , and as ...
August 25 – Montreal's Victoria Bridge opens. September 1 – In Ottawa, the cornerstone of the Centre Block building is laid by Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, signalling the beginning of the building of the Parliament of Canada buildings.
James Hodges (1860), Construction of the great Victoria Bridge in Canada by James Hodges, engineer, to Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts, contractors, London J. Weale, ISBN 978-0-665-45104-1 — available online at the Open Library
L Victoria Bridge was built as a one-track tubular bridge which opened in 1860, then rebuilt as a two-track truss bridge in 1898. The South Y approach was rebuilt around the Saint-Lambert locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1961. [10] M At the north end of Champlain Bridge, two spans, one north-south (aut. 15 and 20) and one east-west (aut. 10 ...
1860 - Built by Grand Trunk Railway, the Jubilee Bridge (now the Victoria Bridge) is the first bridge linking the Island of Montreal to the South Shore. 1864 - The Great Coalition holds conferences on a confederation project; 1864 - Quebec Conference of 1864 held to discuss Canadian Confederation which will lead to the creation of Canada.
The crossing of the Saint Lawrence River has always proved problematic for engineers due to width, depth, currents, and ice cover. The construction of Victoria Bridge for the Grand Trunk Railway, which, at 2 kilometres (1.2 mi), was the longest bridge in the world when it first opened in 1860, [4] highlighted the problems presented by this natural obstacle. [5]
Plans for the bridge and overtures to the railroad company started in the 1850s but were put on hold until after the Civil War. The Hannibal Bridge under construction on Feb. 13, 1868.
On 14 May 1859, the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada petitioned Queen Victoria, and other members of the royal family to visit Montreal for the opening of Victoria Bridge. [37] Unwilling to leave London in the hands of rivaling politicians, Victoria instead accepted the Canadian invitation on behalf of her son, Albert Edward, the ...