Photograph of Cisco Bridge over the Fraser River

Photograph of Cisco Bridge over the Fraser River

Construction
Transportation
Mining
Economics
Infrastructure

This photograph is of the Cisco Bridge that crosses the Fraser River. The photo shows the well-constructed bridge made of steel and stone, allowing for railway tracks to be built on top of it. This would have allowed access for more miners into the area in the search for gold, as well as the moving of heavier industrial machinery to allow for more vigorous mining. The effect that railroads had was huge as better machinery could be moved in, along with more people, thus allowing more gold to be mined in a shorter amount of time and more profit to be made. This source fits in with the themes of transportation and the gold rush.

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Simon Fraser University – Digitised Collection

http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/vpl-92/cisco-bridge-stone-and-steel-fraser-river

1 January 1885

Stephanie Ternier

Multicultural Canada

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Visual - photograph

19th century British Columbia