09-02-2018 21:53 via vancouversun.com

This Week in History: 1907 A railway proposes a bridge across the Second Narrows

If you wanted to get from Vancouver to the North Shore in 1907, you had to take a boat, or swim.
But the 20-year-old city had no shortage of big schemes. And on Feb. 8, 1907, the Daily Province announced the Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon Railway wanted to build a bridge across the Second Narrows.
The Province didn’t like it.
“If the scheme goes through that great area of water frontage on both sides of the Inlet to the east of the Second Narrows and on the North Arm of the Inlet m
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