This concrete arch bridge over the Whitemud River, near Arden in what is now the Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne, was built in 1916 on a design by engineer Manson Ainslie Lyons, at a cost of $9,499, the first of its kind to be constructed in Manitoba. After it was bypassed by a realignment of Highway 352 in the early 1990s, the bridge was abandoned and demolished around 2008.
Concrete arch bridge south of Arden (1917)
Source: Report of the Good Roads Board for the Fiscal Year Ending November 20th 1918, Department of Public Works, Province of Manitoba. [Manitoba Legislative Library]
Concrete arch bridge south of Arden (October 1971)
Source: Ian Ward
Concrete arch bridge south of Arden (October 2007)
Source: John Dietz
Concrete arch bridge south of Arden (October 2007)
Source: John Dietz
Site of the former concrete arch bridge south of Arden (June 2013)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.23477, W99.24780
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Concrete Arch Bridge (Whitemud River, Arden, Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Concrete Arch Bridge (Whitemud River, Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne)
“Lansdowne,” pages 60-61, Report of the Good Roads Board for the Fiscal Year Ending November 30th 1916, Department of Public Works, Province of Manitoba. [Manitoba Legislative Library]
“Manitoba’s permanent bridge building” by Patrick O’Donnell Burke-Gaffney, Contract Record and Engineering Review, Volume 31, Number 32 (8 August 1917), pages 678-683.
Pioneering in Highway Bridges for the Province of Manitoba and the Engineering Profession by George Alois De Pauw, 1993, page 47.
We thank John Dietz and Ian Ward for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 February 2025
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