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List of bridges in Canada

This is a list of bridges and viaducts in Canada, including those for pedestrians and vehicular traffic.

Historical and architectural interest bridges

There are only a few covered bridges left in Canada. In Quebec, despite over 1,200 existing in the last century, today there are only 88 remaining. In New Brunswick, 58 covered bridges have been identified.

Major road and railway bridges

Canada's longest bridge is the Confederation Bridge in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with a total of between abutments, it's also the world's longest bridge over ice-covered water. More than 5,000 local workers helped with the project, which cost about $1 billion.

The Quebec Bridge has been the longest cantilever bridge span in the world since 1917, measuring between its two piles. It held the record of all-categories longest span in the world until the opening of the Ambassador Bridge. It's the last bridge that broke such a record before suspension bridges hold the award by far. It was designated a National Historic Sites of Canada in 1995.

In 1929, the Ambassador Bridge between Canada and United States surpassed the Quebec Bridge with a main span and became the longest crossing in the world until the inauguration of the George Washington Bridge in 1931 in New York City which almost doubled the range hitherto achieved.

Studies have been carried out for crossing the Saguenay River near Tadoussac just before the confluence with the St. Lawrence River, the latest project presented by the COWI A/S company includes the construction of a span suspension bridge with a clearance above the river.

This table presents the structures with spans greater than 100 meters (non-exhaustive list).

The old bridges over the Niagara

This part lists all the former bridges which succeeded one another on the Niagara River between the towns of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Queenston in Canada and Niagara Falls, New York, and Lewiston, in United States. The Whirlpool Rapids Bridge (1897), the Rainbow Bridge (1941) and the Lewiston–Queenston Bridge (1962), still in service are listed in the Major road and railway bridges part above.

Alphabetical list

This part is organized by province and territory.

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

  • Arlington Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Assiniboine River Bridge - Portage la Prairie
  • Esplanade Riel − Winnipeg
  • The Bridges of St Norbert - St Norbert
  • Provencher Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Elm Park Bridge − Winnipeg
  • St. Vital Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Norwood Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Main Street Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Midtown Bridge (Donald Street Bridge) − Winnipeg
  • Osborne Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Harry Lazarenko Bridge (Redwood Bridge) − Winnipeg
  • Fort Garry Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Kildonan Settlers Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Kichi Sipi Bridge - Cross Lake
  • Maryland Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Charleswood Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Disraeli Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Louise Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Slaw Rebchuk Bridge (Salter Street Bridge) − Winnipeg
  • North Perimeter Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Selkirk Lift Bridge - Selkirk
  • South Perimeter Bridge − Winnipeg
  • St Peters Dynevor Bridge
  • West Perimeter Bridge − Winnipeg
  • St. James Bridge − Winnipeg
  • Lockport Bridge − Lockport
  • Daly Overpass (18th Street Bridge) − Brandon
  • 8th Street Bridge − Brandon
  • 1st Street Bridge − Brandon
  • Thompson Bridge − Brandon
  • Bruce Cameron Bridge − Swan River
  • Taylor Bridge − Headingley
  • Pierre Delorme Bridge − St. Adolphe
  • Miles Hart Bridge - Thompson
  • Baie St Paul Bridge
  • Jack Bend Bridge

Newfoundland and Labrador

  • Sir Robert Bond Bridge
  • Queen Elizabeth II Bridge − St. John's
  • Sir Ambrose Shea Bridge − Placentia

New Brunswick

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

Ontario

Prince Edward Island

Quebec

Saskatchewan

North Saskatchewan River

South Saskatchewan River

Saskatchewan River

Other Lakes and Rivers

Notes and references

  • Notes
  • Others references

See also

External links

Further reading