Now Victoria International Airport, Patricia Bay Airfield was the home, in World War 2, of No. 3 Operational Training Unit, from 1/11/42 to 3/8/45, of No. 32 Operational Training Unit from 13/10/41 to 1/6/44 and of No. 13 Operational Training Squadron from 31/10/40 to...
In 1998, the Board of Directors of CSCE approved as a National Historic Civil Engineering Project, the Design, Construction and Operation of the 88 Airfields, 88 Relief Airfields and requisite infrastructure built between 1940 and 1943 for the operation of the British...
Built in 1932 during the Great Depression to provide work for local residents; five-span concrete arch bridge designed and constructed under the supervision of Dean C.J. Mackenzie.
LOCATION: 500 32’ N, 1110 50’ W 142 Range Road, Newell County, Alberta, T1R 0E9. ( 8 km Southeast of the town of Brooks, Alberta, off Trans-Canada Highway 1) DESCRIPTION: Built between 1912 and 1914, the Aqueduct was a 3.2 kilometre long reinforced concrete trestle...
LOCATION: Craigellachie, British Columbia – 50o 58’31”N 118o 43’25”W The last spike of Canada’s first transcontinental railway was driven here on November 7, 1885. DESCRIPTION: The Canadian Pacific Railway was the Civil Engineering project that united the...
Centre St Bridge which crosses the Bow River in Calgary was constructed in 1916, replacing the MacArthur Bridge on the same site which was destroyed by a flood in 1915. Centre Street Bridge was designed by John F. Green, has two decks. The upper deck, a reinforced...
Opened for navigation in 1843, the Chambly Canal by-passed the rapids on the Richelieu River, making it a major trade route between Canada and the United States.
Designed by Henry G.C. Ketchum; used to transport boats between the Bay of Fundy and Baie Verte. Hydraulic lifts at each end raised boats onto a railway cradle car. Construction was commended in 1888 but never completed.
DESCRIPTION:The Edmonton and District Railway Company, incorporated in 1896 to build from Edmonton, via St. Albert to Ft. Assiniboine and Stony Plain and from Edmonton to Ft. Saskatchewan and Sturgeon River, was granted permission, in 1898, to build from Edmonton to...
