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Canada's longest bridge is the Confederation Bridge in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with a total of 12,910 metres (8.02 mi) between abutments, it's also the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water. More than 5,000 local workers helped with the project, which cost about $1 billion.
The Lethbridge Viaduct, commonly known as the High Level Bridge, is a railway trestle bridge over the Oldman River in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.Constructed between 1907 and 1909 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it is the largest railway structure in Canada and the largest of its type in the world, and is still regularly maintained and used over a century since its construction.
The Sioux Narrows Bridge is a bridge on Highway 71 at Sioux Narrows, Ontario, which spans the Sioux Narrows strait between Regina Bay and Whitefish Bay on Lake of the Woods. [ 1 ] Built in 1936 as an all-wooden truss bridge made of Douglas fir timber treated with creosote , [ 2 ] it was at 210 feet (64 m) the longest single-span wooden bridge ...
Opened on May 31, 1997, the 12.9-kilometre (8.0 mi) bridge is Canada's longest bridge [3] and the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water. [4] Construction took place from 1 November 1993 until May 1997 [5] [6] and cost C$1.3 billion. Before its official naming, Prince Edward Islanders often referred to the bridge as the "Fixed Link".
List of bridges in Canada; C. List of bridges in Calgary; F. List of crossings of the Fraser River; M. List of bridges to the Island of Montreal; N.
This is a list of bridges, tunnels, and other crossings of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It includes both functional crossings and historic crossings which no longer exist, and lists them in sequence from the South Arm of the Fraser River at the Strait of Georgia upstream to its source .
Bridges in Canada by province or territory (13 C) Bridges in Canada by river (12 C, 2 P) Bridges in Canada by traffic (4 C) Bridges in Canada by type (16 C) *
Stressed ribbon bridges in Canada (1 P) Suspension bridges in Canada (24 P) Swing bridges in Canada (20 P) T. Toll bridges in Canada (1 C, 22 P)