This Week in History: 1889 — the first Granville Street Bridge opens

The first Granville Street Bridge opened on Jan. 4, 1889, which was 130 years ago Friday.
“It started in a clearing and ended in a forest,” Vancouver archivist Major James Matthews noted on a photo of the bridge. “It was constructed to give access to a slit in the towering forest known as the ‘North Arm Road,’ now Granville Street south, and shorten (the) route via old ‘North Arm Road,’ now Fraser Street.”
North Arm refers to the north arm of the F