Construction of the Trent River Bridge, Trenton Ontario 1959

Fantastic footage! in colour! My dad was a welder at Central Bridge for years. I know it was a tough job but never realized the chances they took on the job everyday. Thank you so much for showing this

My Dad, Bud Seabrooke, worked with Tony, the head engineer, and from blueprints he would use soapstone and chalk lines and center punch on the huge pieces of metal, he would lay out all the shapes of the girders including the camber to make the arch in the bridge, he laid out the jig to make all the connection holes, laid out the connection plates and inserted hardened steel bushings into the drill holes so the holes would stay consistent in every girder at both ends so when it got to the erection site, they would use drilled connection plates that would match the drilled holes to connect the girders together.

Sylvia Reddom Thanks for the wonderful memory! My Dad (Sam Potts of S Potts Insurance, Trenton) and I always said this was "our bridge" as every day he would drive me out there and we would "supervise" the work! I was just a wee kid then!!! Thanks again! Sylvia (Potts) Reddom

My Dad Vaughan worked for Central Bridge.and this bridge and more.Rare footage,Very cool.

I remember driving Kingston to Toronto before the highway was built.  We took old highway # 2 through every town along the way, right through the down town areas.    That is all the traffic there was then.   The world is said to be a much better place with all the traffic today.  Everyone claims that growth is better and we need a lot more of it to keep us happy.   Imagine how wonderful it will be with another 100 years of growth.    By the way, I was also in the last car to drive along old highway # 2 at Morrisburg the night before Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhour blew up the giant coffer dams and flooded the area for the St.Lawrence Seaway.    Every tree, shrub, fence house and shed had been removed,  it was a barren as the prairies.

Very cool. Pretty convenient, the fact that Central Bridge was very close by. There were more structural steel detailers in this area than anywhere in N.A. due to the closing of Central Bridge. Some went to Stephens-Adamson in Belleville or worked for fabricators in the area and also for large steel shops in the USA. I crossed that bridge twice today and it will now always remind me of this video.

Thats the 401 crossing Trent River for anybody wondering