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Manitoba Business: Dominion Bridge Company

This Montreal-based firm, which had operated a steel fabricating plant in Winnipeg since around 1906, declared bankruptcy in September 1998 and its assets were eventually sold.

Some of its surviving steel bridges around Manitoba include:

Bridge Type	River	Municipality	Built
Pony Truss	Birdtail	Municipality of Prairie View	1923
Through Truss	Assiniboine	RM of Wallace-Woodworth	1926
Beam	Winnipeg	RM of Lac du Bonnet	1931
Through Truss	Assiniboine	Municipality of Riverdale	1946
Through Truss	Qu’Appelle	RM of Ellice-Archie	1948
Through Truss	Bowsman	Municipality of Minitonas-Bowsman	1948
Pony Truss	Shell	Municipality of Roblin	?
Pony Truss	Turtle	Municipality of Ste. Rose	?

See also:

Manitoba Business: Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works

Sources:

“Workers eye buying steel plant,” Winnipeg Free Press, 12 September 1998, page 31.

“Dominion Bridge plant jumps back into action,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 April 1999, page 24.

“Dominion Bridge tax sale may be city’s richest,” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 December 2009, page B2.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 23 March 2019