Monday, February 5, 2007  Winnipeg's Historic Bridges
Winnipeg's Historic Bridges  "How the city's investment in an
expensive bridge growth and prosperity to Winnipeg"  by George
Siamandas         bbhilda said...  I have received an e-mail
through my website ( from a lady in the UK who is a relative of
a man named John Ward who was fatally injured while working for
Canada Foundry Co. He was crushed in 1911 while building a
bridge at the 'end of Main Street'. She is requesting the name
of this bridge, and a photo if possible. I have discovered that
it was just south of the Union Depot, and it has been described
as TCR bridge, National Transcontinental Railway bridge and GTP
bridge. Can anyone pinpoint this bridge? I was wondering if it
was the railway bridge near the baseball stadium? Where was the
Union Depot? The Union Station hadn't yet been built had it? My
search hasn't come up with any railway bridges that were built
in 1911 or 1912. Hope someone can help this lady.  bbhilda
said...  I forgot to say tha