Lions Gate Bridge
Suspension bridge with towering steel piers and Art Deco lion statues, financed by a brewing dynasty during the Depression.
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This guide to Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver follows engineer Alfred Taylor's 1933 pitch to the Guinness family to buy vast stretches of forested North Shore land, sight unseen, for a new suburb, and the deal that had the beer company paying to blast a road through Stanley Park and fund a bridge to reach it. It traces construction through the depths of the Depression, when a jobs-producing project was hard to vote down. Down at the south end, sculptor Charles Marega's bronze-green lions still guard the entrance he gave them.
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