This is my favourite bridge in the Vancouver area. The Alex Fraser Bridge was built for Expo 1986 and is now over 20 years old but it still feels new and modern. It has amazing large steel cables that make it feel both safe and majestic when driving over it.
This is the Burrard Bridge built in about 1932 and named after Sir Harry Burrard-Neale (whoever he was). It is built in Art Deco style and has guard towers at either end which are kind of quaint.
Actually, I do know a little about the fellow whose name was used on this bridge. There were two Sir Harry Burrards who were cousins and both were friends of Sir George Vancouver. The first Sir Harry Burrard was honoured by the naming of Burrard Inlet while the second Sir Harry Burrard-Neale was remembered by naming this bridge and the street after him. The Burrard bridge actually spans False Creek. (The two bridges over Burrard Inlet are Lions Gate Bridge and Ironworkers Memorial.)
There is another interesting object in this photo. The middle apartment tower in this photo is Martello Towers. (Does anyone know how to apply labels here to photos like you see on facebook to identify objects and people?) Anyway, this property, at the corner of Beach and Thurlow, was originally supposed to house the City Hall of Vancouver. It was to be built in the same Art Deco style as the bridge. The town fathers at that time however deemed the expense too great and elected to build a cheaper structure way out at 12th and Cambie on what was then park land.
This is the Burrard Bridge built in about 1932 and named after Sir Harry Burrard-Neale (whoever he was). It is built in Art Deco style and has guard towers at either end which are kind of quaint.Actually, I do know a little about the fellow whose name was used on this bridge. There were two Sir Harry Burrards who were cousins and both were friends of Sir George Vancouver. The first Sir Harry Burrard was honoured by the naming of Burrard Inlet while the second Sir Harry Burrard-Neale was remembered by naming this bridge and the street after him. The Burrard bridge actually spans False Creek. (The two bridges over Burrard Inlet are Lions Gate Bridge and Ironworkers Memorial.)
There is another interesting object in this photo. The middle apartment tower in this photo is Martello Towers. (Does anyone know how to apply labels here to photos like you see on facebook to identify objects and people?) Anyway, this property, at the corner of Beach and Thurlow, was originally supposed to house the City Hall of Vancouver. It was to be built in the same Art Deco style as the bridge. The town fathers at that time however deemed the expense too great and elected to build a cheaper structure way out at 12th and Cambie on what was then park land.
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