Hagwilget Canyon Bridge

Coordinates: 55°15′27″N 127°36′16″W / 55.2575°N 127.6044°W / 55.2575; -127.6044
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Hagwilget Canyon Bridge
Suspension Bridge
Total length140.2 metres (460 ft)
Width4.9 metres (16 ft)
Height80 metres (262 ft)
History
Construction end1931 (reinforced in 1990)
Location
Map

Hagwilget Canyon Bridge is a

Hagwilget, British Columbia
. The current bridge was constructed in 1931, and later reinforced in 1990.

Three previous bridges spanned the same location, the first constructed by Wet'suwet'en people, generations before white settlement. The Wet'suwet'en later reinforced their wooden-pole bridge using cable abandoned after the disbandment of the Russian–American Telegraph expedition.[1][2]

  • Hagwilget First Bridge
    Hagwilget First Bridge
  • Hagwilget Second Bridge
    Hagwilget Second Bridge

See also

References

  1. ^ Michael Kluckner. "Vanishing B.C. Hagwilget Bridge". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  2. OCLC 612571448
    . Retrieved September 13, 2018.

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55°15′27″N 127°36′16″W / 55.2575°N 127.6044°W / 55.2575; -127.6044