Postcard from Canada
The beautiful art deco, steel truss bridge had hardly been opened when thousands of walkers and hundreds of cars hurried to cross the bridge for the first time. Designed by George Lister Thornton Sharpe and engineered by John R Grant, the bridge crossing Vancouver’s “False Creek” was built in under three years at a cost of about three million dollars. Two of the architectural pieces that stand out on the main superstructures are the busts of Captain George Vancouver on the one side and Sir Harry Burrard Neale on the other. The beautiful central piers that hold the busts are connected with an overhead gallery crossing the bridge width at each end of the steel trusses.
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