Archive for category: Swing Bridge Stories

EDITOR’S NOTE–This is the current installment of a series that will focus on Manitoulin’s iconic swing bridge which, in 2013, will celebrate a century of service as Manitoulin Island’s physical, year-round link with the mainland. This series, which will lead up to festivities planned around next year’s centennial event, seeks [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the current installment of a series that will focus on Manitoulin’s iconic swing bridge which, in 2013, will celebrate a century of service as Manitoulin Island’s physical, year-round link with the mainland. This series, which will lead to festivities planned around next year’s centennial event, seeks [...]

by Sandy McGillivray From the late decades of the 19th Century, Manitoulin people were longing for a land link to the North Shore. Several different parties held the charter to build the rail line but each in turn made promises but never performed. Hopes were high at the turn of [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE—This is the current installment of a series that will focus on Manitoulin’s iconic swing bridge which, in 2013, will celebrate a century of service as Manitoulin Island’s physical, year-round link with the mainland. This series, which will lead up to festivities planned around next year’s centennial event, seeks [...]

by Robin Burridge LITTLE CURRENT—2013 will mark the centennial of the Manitoulin swing bridge. In celebrating this momentous occasion there will numerous events, festivals, a holiday weekend and even a new column in The Expositor. 2013 will be a year of not only celebration, but also of reflections—reflecting on the [...]