Wilson Avenue Bridge before reconstruction, St. Thomas
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives183166
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- St. Thomas Public Library Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1901
- Accession Number
- 2018-07
- Storage Location
- M2 S1 Sh1 B1 F2 121
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2018-07
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M2 S1 Sh1 B1 F2 121
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1901
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.5 x 16.5 cm
- Scope and Content
- Wilson Avenue Bridge, St. Thomas, looking west, ca. 1901. Shows the second bridge in this location, constructed 1901, replaced the original built by Senator J.H. Wilson in the mid-1870s so he could sell for development property that he owned on the south side of the ravine. This bridge was demolished in 1949 and replaced with a third bridge at this location, which survived until 1986 when it was demolished and replaced by the current Mill Creek Causeway Bridge. Notice the stanchions of the St. Thomas Street Railway (street railway system was only extended south across this bridge when it was reconstructed in 1901). View includes the house of David McLaws, Registrar of the Surrogate Court. Image appears in the Union Meeting, Canadian Divisions Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Souvenir booklet, 1906, with caption "Wilson's Bridge from ravine."
- Same image as Cameron Collection item number C-9).
- Name Access
- St. Thomas (Ont.)
- Wilson Avenue Bridge
- Subject Access
- Bridges
Images
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