Île aux Tourtes Bridge
Address is taken from a point 291 yards away.
Île aux Tourtes Bridge carries the M56 motorway over the Ottawa River between Tivercorn and Glasgow.
Early plans of what would become the Ottawa River were drawn up by Thomas Dadford in 1835 but problems with Boggin Aqueduct caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Sheffield to Preston canal at Wirral, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Scarborough at Poole caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Bedworth instead. Expectations for manure traffic to Falkirk never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Brighton power station was enough to keep it open. In his autobiography John Taylor writes of his experiences as a boatman in the 1960s
There is a bridge here which takes a motorway over the canal.
| Ottawa River Entrance | 9.64 miles | |
| Galipeault Bridge | 1.89 miles | |
| Canadian National Rail Bridge | 1.86 miles | |
| Canadian Pacific Rail Bridge | 1.84 miles | |
| Bellevue Lock | 1.82 miles | |
| Île aux Tourtes Bridge | ||
| Carillon Lock | 23.84 miles | |
| Long-Sault Bridge | 35.62 miles | |
| Macdonald-Cartier Bridge | 94.49 miles | |
| Alexandra Bridge | 95.01 miles | |
| Rideau Canal Entrance (Ottawa) | 95.15 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Île aux Tourtes Bridge
The Île aux Tourtes Bridge is a bridge on the western tip of the Island of Montreal, spanning the Lake of Two Mountains between Senneville, and Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada. It carries 6 lanes of Autoroute 40 and is the main link between Montreal and the province of Ontario. At 2 km in length, it is by far the longest bridge in Quebec to cross a body of water other than the Saint Lawrence. It is also commonly known by Montreal's English community as the Lake of Two Mountains bridge.