There have been bridges—three in succession—on Garrison Road west of the fort since shortly after the Grand Trunk Railway was constructed there in the mid-1850s. The last of these structures, built in 1960, became obsolete when the Queen’s Wharf Branch of the railway was taken up in 1990. David Spittal has written a lengthy and engaging piece about the bridges in the Dec. 2014 issue of The Fife & Drum http://www.fortyork.ca/images/newsletters/fife-and-drum-2014/fife-and-drum-dec-2014.pdf.
The removal of the last bridge this spring prompted Sid Calzavara, a director of The Friends of Fort York, to take a series of photographs of the demolition which have been collected into an album found here https://www.flickr.com/photos/friends_of_fort_york/sets.
Courtesy of Sid Calzavara.
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