APEGM Heritage:Current events

Historic Road Bridge Tour - May 8, 2015 Purpose: A proposed tour to focus on historical bridges that were previously visited by Gord Goldsborough from the Manitoba Historical Society. Total distance is about 600 km but it could be shorted if need be. There are many more bridges on the route that we could see depending on time and interest. Gord has compiled some short background information on these ones and we could look to increase the level of information and determine how to include these sites on the APEGM project inventory.

Draft Itinerary

1.	Meet at 7 am at Tim Horton on Portage Ave East near entrance to Assiniboine Downs Race Track or at Flying J?? a.	Or we can leave our vehicles at someone’s place in the west end of the City. 2.	Depart at 7:30, leave extra vehicles at Flying J parking lot. 3.	Proposed Route 4.	Highway #1 from Winnipeg to #16 (west of Portage la Prairie) a.	Newton Bowstring Arch Bridge [1919] (RM of Portage la Prairie) http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/newtonconcretebridge.shtml 5.	Highway #16 to #10 at Minnedosa a.	Lansdowne Steel Bridge No. 2 [date unknown] (RM of Lansdowne) http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/lansdownesteelbridge2.shtml b.	Lansdowne Concrete Bridge [1921] (RM of Lansdowne) http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/lansdowneconcretebridge.shtml 6.	Highway #10 through Brandon (lunch?) to #23 near Souris 7.	Lunch in Brandon – Tim Horton’s or Subway a.	Whitewater Concrete Bridge [1929] (RM of Whitewater) http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/hwy10bridge.shtml b.	Margaret Concrete Arch Bridge [1917] (Margaret, RM of Riverside) http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/margaretconcretebridge.shtml 8.	Highway #23 to #346 to #2 a.	Riverside Steel Truss Bridge [1927] (RM of Riverside) http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/riversidesteelbridge.shtml b.	Oakland Concrete Culvert Bridge #2 [1920] (RM of Oakland) http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/oaklandbridge2.shtml 9.	Highway #2 to Wawanesa to #340 a.	Wawanesa Steel Truss Bridge [1908] (Wawanesa) http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/wawanesasteelbridge.shtml 10.	 Highway #340 to #1 to Winnipeg 11.	Other stops? 12.	Return at 1700 hrs++ 13.	Rest for three days….