Fort Steele Bridge - 1966 - Fort Steele, BC - Bridge Date Stones and Plaques on Waymarking.com

Fort Steele is the biggest and baddest tourist attraction in the area, well worth spending an afternoon, or even a full day, exploring. It is a museum and heritage village with over 60 restored and reconstructed heritage buildings, as well as machinery, vehicles, tractors, a steam locomotive and railway cars, and artefacts galore.

Crossing the Kootenay River just south of Fort Steele is this concrete and steel bridge, complete with benchmark at the southeast corner of the bridge. Supported by steel girders, the 750 foot long bridge stands on six pairs of round concrete pillars in the river and concrete abutments each end.

On the southwest end of the bridge is a well oxidized bronze plaque carrying the date of construction of the bridge, 1966.

British Columbia
Department of Highways
Fort Steele Bridge
1966
Hon P. A. Gaglardi	H.T. Maird
Minister of Highways	Deputy Minister of Highways
D.D. Godfrey	J. Alton
Chief Engineer	Bridge Engineer
Contractors
Bakgaard Construction Co. Ltd.
Dominion Bridge Company Limited

Date built or dedicated as indicated on the date stone or plaque.: 1966 Date stone, plaque location.: Southeast end post/abutment Road, body of water, land feature, etc. that the bridge spans.: Kootenay River Website (if available): Not listed Parking (safe parking location): Not Listed

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