The Pretoria Bridge is a table bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It crosses the Rideau Canal linking the Glebe and Centretown to Old Ottawa East. The bridge was built in 1915, replacing an earlier wooden swing bridge on Argyle Street just to the north. It is a table bridge, meaning that the central portion of the bridge can be elevated to allow boats to pass underneath. Although built by the Strauss Bascule Bridge Company, the moveable span is not a bascule type but a table-type.[1]
Pretoria Bridge in raised and lowered position
In the late 1970s it was discovered that road salt had seriously damaged the bridge. Proposals were advanced to build a larger and higher bridge, but these were opposed by those who saw the bridge as a heritage structure. Eventually it was decided to rebuild the bridge almost exactly as it had been before.
The bridge shares its name with nearby Pretoria Avenue. Pretoria Avenue, formerly Jane Street, was renamed in 1902 to commemorate the British victory in the Second Boer War and those Canadians that had served. The name comes from the captured Boer capital, Pretoria. The name later become controversial as most Canadians associated it with the apartheid regime in South Africa. In the late 1980s a movement was launched to rename the bridge after Nelson Mandela. This was opposed by others who felt it was an important monument to Canadians who had fought in South Africa. City council refused to get involved and the proposal eventually died.
75°41′00″W / 45.41149°N 75.68345°W / 45.41149; -75.68345 The PretoriaBridge is a table bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It crosses the Rideau Canal linking...
Suid-Afrika; also informally known as The Pretoria Zoo) is an 80-hectare (200-acre) zoo located in Pretoria, South Africa. It is the national zoo of South...
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universities) as an "umbrella" or federal institution with its seat in Pretoria, playing an academic trusteeship role for several colleges that eventually...
24. An Afrikaner of Dutch and German ancestry, Vosloo was born into a Pretoria acting family, his parents having been stage-actors. His father ran a drive-in...
1998–1999 7 Known as the "Capital Hill Serial Killer" murdered 7 people in Pretoria from 1998–1999. Ripper Jayanandan India 2003–2006 7 Killed seven people...
Laudium (/ˈlɔːdiəm, ˈloʊ-/) is an Indian township southwest of central Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Claudius is a residential...
Wierdapark is a suburb of Centurion, Gauteng, near Pretoria, and is located in the province of Gauteng, South Africa. Wierdapark was named after the chief...
Williams-De Bruyn in a march of 20,000 women to the Union Buildings of Pretoria in protest against the apartheid government's requirement that women carry...
the N1 Highway connects this border post to the main economic centres of Pretoria (463 km) and Johannesburg (521 km). The closest town is Musina (16 km)...
Southern Ndebele are killed in the Siege of Makapans Cave. Founding of Pretoria, named after Andries Pretorius. An apocalyptic prophecy by the Xhosa girl...
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Randfontein and Soweto; east to Springs, Nigel and Daveyton; north to Pretoria and south to Vereeniging. Park Station is also the terminus of Shosholoza...
strategic places. The Pretoria Wireless Project is another community based network in the city, which has been connected to the Pretoria WUG network as of...
covers an area of 1,221,037 square kilometres (471,445 square miles). Pretoria is the administrative capital, while Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament...
Afrikaans). Vol. IV. Pretoria: Die Staatsdrukker. Breytenbach, J. H. (1983). Die Britse Opmars tot in Pretoria [The British advance to Pretoria]. Die Geskiedenis...
January 2017. Manda, Sihle (22 December 2016). "Pretoria man falls prey to Kuga fire fiasco". IOL (Pretoria News). Johannesburg: Independent Media. Retrieved...
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