Historic Sites of Manitoba: Canadian National Railway Main Line Bridge (Minnewashta Creek, Municipality of Prairie View)

This steel trestle railway bridge over the Minnewashta Creek, on the CNR Rivers Subdivision near Uno in the Municipality of Prairie View, measuring 18 feet wide by 1600 feet long, was built between 1928 and 1929 using steel provided by the Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works at a cost about $250,000. It replaced an earlier wooden bridge from late 1915 that, in turn, replaced one destroyed by a tornado in September 1915.

CNR wooden bridge near Uno

CNR wooden bridge near Uno (August 1928)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0194

Canadian National Railway Main Line Bridge near Uno under construction at right alongside the earlier wooden bridge

Concrete mounts for CNR steel bridge near Uno under construction at right alongside the earlier wooden bridge (1928)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0194

CNR steel bridge near Uno under construction in foreground with the earlier wooden bridge in the background

CNR steel bridge near Uno under construction in foreground with the earlier wooden bridge in the background (1929)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0194

CNR steel bridge near Uno

CNR steel bridge near Uno (June 1995)
Source: George Penner

Site Location (lat/long): N50.22668, W101.09528
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba Business: Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works / Manitoba Bridge and Engineering Works

The Uno Railway Disaster by Leslie S. Kozma
Manitoba History, Number 74, Winter 2014

Sources:

“Building work in west is boom to iron firms,” Winnipeg Tribune, 13 July 1929, page 25.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Jordan Makichuk, and George Penner.

Page revised: 11 April 2024

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