Canadian Gardening: Canada Through Your Eyes part 2, 0 by ViolaAnn

ViolaAnn wrote:
We had time to wander around a bit and snapped these shots of the Ottawa River which is just north of Parliament Hill. This is looking a bit east at the Inter-provincial bridge which connects Ottawa to the Québec city of Gatineau on the other side of the river.

The Royal Alexandra Interprovincial Bridge is a steel truss cantilever bridge spanning the Ottawa River between Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. It is known locally as both the "Alexandra Bridge" and the "Interprovincial Bridge". The bridge was constructed by the Canadian Pacific Railway between 1898 and 1900. The bridge's main cantilever centre span was, at the time of construction, the longest in Canada and the fourth longest in the world.

The bridge was designed primarily to carry CPR trains but also had a track for local electric trolley service between Ottawa and Hull, as well as a lane for carriage traffic. During the late 1950s the bridge was upgraded to carry vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The bridge now provides an important commuter link between Ottawa and Gatineau. The roadways for vehicles are located on the centre and east decks.