Columbia River Suspension Bridge - Revelstoke, British Columbia
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wildwoodke
N 51° 00.310 W 118° 13.302
11U E 414284 N 5651109
This suspension bridge over the Columbia River is found in Revelstoke, British Columbia.
Waymark Code: WM7J77
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 10/30/2009
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"The first road linking the Columbia River east of the Selkirk Mountains with the Columbia River west of the Selkirks was the Big Bend Highway between Donald, near Golden, and Revelstoke in 1929. The road, which followed the river, was completed and officially opened in June 1940. Before 1929, motorists had to ship their cars between Revelstoke and Golden by rail.
Canada and the United States ratified the Columbia River Treaty in 1964, authorizing construction of Mica Dam in the Big Bend north of Revelstoke. Kinbasket Reservoir behind the dam would flood the old highway, and so a new route between Revelstoke and Donald and Golden would be needed. The route was the Rogers Pass Highway, now part of the Transcanada Highway, which follows the Canadian Pacific Railway route over the Selkirks. The highway was completed in September 1962 after 12 years of construction.
The Transcanada Highway crosses the Columbia River at Revelstoke on a 310-meter (1,016 feet) long suspension bridge completed in 1961. Immediately south of the Transcanada bridge is a Canadian Pacific bridge, and immediately south of that is the old, 329-meter (1,079 feet) Big Eddy Bridge (Wilson Street), so named because it crosses in the area of a bend in the river with that name. That bridge was completed in 1924."
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