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Title	Looking west up Elbow River to Mission bridge.
Identifier	aj_49-16
Subject	Calgary (Alta.) -- History
Location	Calgary, Alberta
Time Coverage	5-Oct-60
Photographer	Alison Jackson
Donor	Alison Jackson Estate
Type	Still Image
Repository	Calgary Public Library, Central Library, Local History Room
Collection	Alison Jackson Photograph Collection
Rights	Copyright Calgary Public Library. 616 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary AB, T2G 2M2, 1+(403)260-2785 hum1@calgarypubliclibrary.com
Date Photo	5-Oct-60
Format Photo	35mm colour slide. Taken with a Praktica camera using Kodachrome daylight film K135.
Width Digital	4108
Height Digital	2678
File Size	32252.945 KB
File type	TIF
Notes	“Then & Now” columns appeared weekly in the Calgary Herald between 2002 and 2005. The following article appeared August 27, 2002. Mission Bridge 4th Street S.W. at Elbow Drive THEN: • For more than 100 years, travellers have been crossing the Elbow River near Mission Bridge at the southwest corner of 4th Street and Elbow Drive S.W. In 1886, a wooden bridge replaced the ford in the river. Three years later, local citizens were already complaining about the rotten plank flooring, and by 1897 a new steel bridge had been erected. In 1915, city engineer George W. Craig supervised construction of a concrete bridge. In June of that year, one of the worst floods in Calgary's history threatened the unfinished project and claimed the life of a city worker. The bridge was completed and opened in August. NOW: • Although the bridge has been extensively rebuilt over the past 87 years, elements of the original 1915 structure remain. An average of 17,000 vehicles per day cross the Mission Bridge. It is one of 70 vehicular bridges spanning the rivers of Calgary.
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