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This week, a throwback to a long-ago summer. Can you identify where this photo was taken and what year it might have been? (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Heritage Place)
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Those who guessed that this is construction of the swing bridge, you are correct! This photo was taken in 1938 when the old bridge was replaced.
Susan Pryke’s Huntsville: With Spirit and Resolve tells us that “council lobbied hard to replace the swing bridge, which by 1931 had been deemed ‘difficult and inconvenient’ to operate and ‘unsafe’ for handling heavy traffic… Owing to the bridge’s large size, it was electrically operated.” The bridge cost $150,000 and opened on July 1, 1938.
Latest photo is Dwight beach area. When? Probably around the turn of the century or up to the 1920’s. Hard to say exactly.
Wow ! $150,000 ….. in 1938…… just think what it would cost now !!
I was born in 1957, and I’m sure it was still operating for a few years after that. (WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME IT WAS USED ??? ) I would miss those big cogs in huge iron wheels, even if it isn’t used anymore, if someone designed a new bridge.
The bridge is part and parcel of the main route, and heritage of “our town”. We NEED to preserve that !!
Way back photo is Dwight in early 1920,s.