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For instance, near Lake Megantic in the Eastern Townships, a man comâ€" mitted suicide by throwing himself from a bridge. And for a long time afterwards, neighborhood _ farmers claimed that on some A legend or name associated with a local event was often attached to a particular bridge. Some were toll bridges and old wooden panels listing the rates for harnessed vehicles, horses or cattle can still be found. Local merchants often used the entrance or side walls of the bridges to advertise implements useful to farmers, remedies and household products. In some instances, where the bridges had become dangerous for automobile traffic, modern structures have been built right alongside, leaving the old bridges _ intact. _ Most therefore can easily be reached by road. The old covered bridges provide interesting traces of the past and, if you like travelling around _ the countryside, you will come across them in the most unexpected places. They will also acquaint you with places previously unknown to you. Skilled carpenters, specializing in building covered bridges, were hired by small rural municipalities _ or _ inâ€" dividuals. Contrary to what is sometimes believed, they were not covered to shelter the users from inclement weather but to make the bridges themselves last longer â€" by protecting the wooden deck and main beams. Snow was spread on the deck in winter to make it easier for sleighs. When night came on, sometimes the inside would be lit by lanterns, which on windy days, cast disturbing shadows, â€" giving â€" some bridges the reputation of being haunted. The wooden bridges, with their shingled or corrugatedâ€" iron _ roofing, â€" are â€" of American origin, the first appearing in Pennsylvania and various eastern states in the early 19th century. So thorough was the process that today there are scarcely 150 left in Quebec and about 140 in New Brunswick. In Ontario which never did have many, there is only one and Nova Scotia has only one or two. here, there and everywhere around the countryside, on highways and byways and crossing streams and rivers. But, as time went by, many fell victim to fire, storms, spring floods and man himself. Modern needs also aided in their disappearance. Since most of the bridges could not be integrated into modern road networks, they were replaced by concrete and steel structures. 21!.6 k!:l;u bridges in ys gone by. It was because, in an age when morals were somewhat more severe than they are today, lovers used to hide in them to steal a kiss. There were at least a thousand covered bridges in Quebec and probably as many in New Brunswick in the early days of this cenâ€" ‘by Jacques Coulon evenings they could hear his In New Brunswick and the shouts. Eastern Townships of _ Then there is Johah‘s Covered bridges of Canada On the old timbers, you will find many an arrowâ€" pierced heart carved with lovers‘ initials So the nickname of kissing bridges, Some _ have _ window openings in the flank facing to let in the daylight. Fishermen _ find _ these openings particularly convenient. New Brunsiwck covered bridges are virtually inâ€" distinguishable from those of Quebec. As in Quebec, they are usually of two kinds, depending on whether the timbers in the vertical frame â€" the two walls of the bridge â€" form an X or an inverted V, and are often reinforced with steel bars. or small town and, more recently, picnic grounds have been arranged near some of them in both Quebec and New Brunswick. <In ‘~d" particularly â€"‘ in teresting area like the Eastern Townships, there are almost 30 covered bridges between Sherbrooke and the American border. You can visit them all in a day or two, along with old water mills, nearâ€"forgotten Scottish graveyards and little local museums, all but unknown. The Eastern Townships is a region of lakes and high wooded hills, rich farmland and small, neat and welcoming towns revealing the influence of New England, homeland of the earliest pioneers. Elsewhere, you will find them _ along charming waterways, hidden behind a curtain of trees, rising ground or a cluster of farm buildings with which they share a similar style of construction. Practically all of them are close to a village In Quebec, most covered bridges are found in the earliest settled areas such as the Eastern Townships, the Gatineau Valley, the area around Quebec City and Almost all large rivers in Quebec boast of some covered bridges â€" the Yamaska, _ Chaudiere, Matapédia, Nicolet and Massawippi, to name but a few. when it collapsed. Still in New Brunswick, we come upon: Dan Cupid Bridge, the Bridge to Nowhere and The Twins‘ Bridge at St. Martins, and also a few travelling bridges, so called because the spring floods inevitably tear them from their supports and carry them downstream to the next village. some parts of the Gaspe Peninsula. Most, and frequently the longest and sturdiest, are located in Compton, Labelle, Missisquoi, Abitibiâ€"West, Matapédia, Stanstead and Rimouski counties. The shortest, 48 feet long, is at Saintâ€"Armand Ouest, and the longest, measuring almost 500 feet, is at Notreâ€"Dame de la Providence in the Beauce Last _ summer, _ near Sherbrooke, local craftsmen decided to convert an old covered bridge, closed to traffic, into a barâ€"restaurant combination where objets d‘art were sold. Their idea met with some success. Then there is J:h;h'n Brunswick. It was named after a farmer, Harry Jonah, who was one day herding his Covered bridges are as integral a part of Canada‘s heritage as rural churches, old country homes and small, local museums. Often, while looking for one you discover others. This 122â€"footâ€"long bridge at Notre Dame de Stanbridge is one You will not find any covered bridges along the coast of New Brunswick. They are all inland in farâ€" ming areas furrowed by great rivers. Kings County, for instance, a small area measuring some 50 square miles, has no fewer than 25 covered bridges numbering among the longest and most picturesque of their kind. Ontario‘s only remaining covered bridge is situated at Deon Village, five miles southâ€"west of Kitchener. It was one of the first built in Canada and today provides a rustic entrance into Incidentally, New Brunâ€" swick lays claim to the longest coveed bridge in the world. 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