Landmark
Bow River Bridge
Steel-and-concrete girder bridge faced in river stone to mimic solid Old World masonry.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Bow River Bridge in Banff follows engineer Doctor E. Brydon-Jack through the winter of nineteen twenty, solving an oddly modern problem: getting the automobile across the Bow River without breaking the mountain image town planner Thomas Mawson had designed for the town. It traces Mawson's stalled nineteen-fourteen plan, shelved by the First World War, and the engineering answer that finally satisfied both the cars and the scenery. You will also meet the carved First Nations faces watching from the piers.
This audio guide was created using AI.