Eve Lazarus
It took more than a week to fix a large pothole in the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge last month. But in 1944, the Royal Canadian Engineers threw up a Bailey Bridge in just 10 hours.
The bridge was designed by Donald Coleman Bailey, a civil engineer from Southbourne, England. When the Germans blew up bridges in Europe, the good guys could quickly replace them with Bailey’s invention.
The Arthur Laing Bridge photo essay is the last in a three-part series by Angus McIntyre on Fraser River crossings. The photos were taken on Angus’s Konica Autoreflex T Camera. The Arthur Laing Bridge opened to traffic on 27 August 1975.
December 31, 1972 was an unseasonably warm Sunday and Angus McIntyre jumped on his bike and headed to the Fraser River.
I’d heard of the Hope Slide of 1965, but it wasn’t until we stopped at the viewpoint this past July, that I could see how massive it really was.
On Saturday January 9, 1965, about 20 km east of Hope, half an unnamed mountain plunged down the highway. It brought 46 million cubic metres of rock, earth, snow and trees.
Michael Bradley Smith, 17 missing since December 30, 1967. Last seen at his North Vancouver home. Canada’s Missing website (National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains) Case Reference 2014003272
I put up a post about Michael on my Cold Case BC Facebook page yesterday—55 years after he disappeared.
This was supposed to be a short and happy seasonal post about a cabin and a Christmas log, but then I stumbled across a murder.
Like everyone else, I’m familiar with Shaw’s fire log, but I’d never given any thought to its origins. Then Kyla and Grant Stuart Gardiner’s monthly newsletter came in the mail and talked about its history.
The Knight Street Bridge photo essay is the second in a three-part series by Angus McIntyre. The photos were taken on Angus’s Konica Autoreflex T Camera.
December 31, 1972 was an unseasonably warm Sunday and Angus McIntyre jumped on his bike and headed to the Fraser River. He spent the day documenting the construction of the Knight Street Bridge and the Arthur Laing Bridge – the two Fraser river crossings that would replace the Fraser Street swing span bridge from Vancouver to Mitchell Island and the fixed trestle bridge to Lulu Island.
December 7 is International Civil Aviation Day. It’s a great excuse to write about Margaret (Fane) Rutledge (1914-2004), founder of the Flying Seven and one of the country’s first female pilots.
Edmonton:
Margaret Fane was born to an Edmonton family who were obsessed with making things move. Her father, William Fane, began by repairing carriages, and by 1928 owned what was reputedly the “largest automobile repair plant in the west.” He was the founding member of the Edmonton Glider Club, and in 1933, hand built a glider in his shop.
Do the tiled pile of bricks and cedar planks at UBC’s Gage Tower hold human remains, or are they leftovers from a six-decade-old childhood prank?
Last week I wrote about the two graves near UBC’s Gage Towers. Gregg Doughty first heard about the graves when he started with the university in 1991.
