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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.
Chief Engineers (Western Division)
Period
Chief Engineer
1930-1956
Harry Manning White (1888-1969)
Some of its surviving steel bridges around Manitoba include:
Bridge Type
River
Municipality
Built
Birdtail
1923
Assiniboine
1926
Winnipeg
1931
Assiniboine
1946
Qu’Appelle
1948
Bowsman
1948
Assiniboine
1948
Shell
?
Turtle
?
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: 5 August 2021
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