View of waterfront, swing bridge, S.S. Algonquin, Huntsville, Ontario.
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Postcards
- Description
- View of waterfront, swing bridge, S.S. Algonquin, Huntsville, Ontario.
- Notes
- This postcard was mailed October 7, 1909 from Huntsville to Port Carling. Message: "Huntsville, Please bail out the well. We expect to be home on Monday. A.L.Casselman." Addressed to Mr. Ivet Stevens, Port Carling, Ontario.
Report of the Comissioner of Public Works for 1901: "Bridge at Huntsville - Provision was made in estimates for the present year for the contstruction of a new bridge across the North Branch of the Muskoka River in the Town of Huntsville to take the place of one erected by the Department in 1884, which had become decayed to such an extent as to endanger the safety of the public...It will consist of one swinging span 135 feet in length, and fixed span 69 feet, 9 inches, for a total length along the centre line of 204 feet, 9 inches, all of which, except the joists and flooring, will be of steel." The key lever to swing this bridge is now at Muskoka Heritage Place in Huntsville, Ontario.
- Inscriptions
- Swing Bridge, Steamer Algonquin, Huntsville, Canada.
- Publisher
- Stedman Bros., Brantford, Canada
- Place of Publication
- Germany
- Date of Original
- 1901-1909
- Date Of Event
- 1901-1909
- Dimensions
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Width: 14 cm
Height: 8.5 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 453
- Collection
- Private Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 45.33341 Longitude: -79.21632
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- Donor
- Barbara Stephen
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact:
- Huntsville Public Libraryjulie.manczak@huntsvillelibrary.ca
7 Minerva St. E.
Huntsville, ON P1H 1W4
