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| Keywords: outdoor "Bridge at the Gorge, Victoria, B. C." Post Card. Made Expressly for Canadian Pacific Railway News Service. Tillicum Road bridge over the Gorge Waterway and rapids. Bridge joins Municipality of Saanich and Victoria with Esquimalt on Vancouver Island, BC. In the distance is Esquimalt, the dance pavilion and the Tramway Gorge Park loop (today's Esquimalt Gorge Park). The bridge illustrated above was the fifth bridge structure to span this crossing. It opened officially on July 6, 1899 and featured white woodwork supported by two substantial steel arches lined with electric lights. Used to the point of deterioration, the bridge's safety began to become a concern beginning in 1915. It was finally demolished in 1933 and replaced with a new, lighter-framed steel structure. (The current, seventh Gorge Bridge of reinforced concrete dates to 1967.) "Bridge at the Gorge, Victoria, B. C." Post Card. Made Expressly for Canadian Pacific Railway News Service. Tillicum Road bridge over the Gorge Waterway and rapids. Bridge joins Municipality of Saanich and Victoria with Esquimalt on Vancouver Island, BC. In the distance is Esquimalt, the dance pavilion and the Tramway Gorge Park loop (today's Esquimalt Gorge Park). The bridge illustrated above was the fifth bridge structure to span this crossing. It opened officially on July 6, 1899 and featured white woodwork supported by two substantial steel arches lined with electric lights. Used to the point of deterioration, the bridge's safety began to become a concern beginning in 1915. It was finally demolished in 1933 and replaced with a new, lighter-framed steel structure. (The current, seventh Gorge Bridge of reinforced concrete dates to 1967.) | ||||
