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Another bridge story...

"The Rock Bay Bridge was built in the 1880′s, and was the second bridge to connect the shores of the bay. The bridge connected Store street on the Victoria side, what was then the junction of Bridge Street and Work Street in Esquimalt. In 1900 the B.C. Electric Company, who ran the streetcars that served Greater Victoria, and ran a car across the bridge, proposed to replace its seven ton streetcars with cars that weighed thirty tons. Because of the already fragile state of the wooden bridge, this change over brought to light serious safety concerns about the ever weakening bridge span."

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The Rock Bay Bridge decorated for the 1876 visit of the Governor-Generals visit to Victoria. Capital Iron building in background to right.