A recent transfer to the Archives from the Oshawa Community Museum and Archives includes a series of photographs of a collapsed bridge, without any information as to the location of it. I’m sharing it here to see if anyone can help us pinpoint it. The other photographs in the album mainly show scenes from Royal Flying Corps training camps in Ontario (Camps Borden and Mohawk) and Texas (Camp Taliaferro, Fort Worth) and were taken during the First World War in 1917 and 1918. The bridge could be somewhere near one of these camps, or perhaps somewhere else entirely!
This photograph shows an overview of the bridge site. There are no buildings on the side of the bridge nearest the camera, but there are several houses on the other side of the river:
Site of mystery bridge
This one shows a Coast to Coast bus in the water at the side of the bridge:
‘Coast to Coast’ bus next to the bridge
And this one is a close-up view of the bridge itself:
Collapsed bridge
Please leave a comment if you can help.
Deseronto Archives 
October 10, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Looks like the bridge over Sucker Creek on the Boundary Road north of Deseronto.
October 10, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Good guess Don, but I have to disagree. There have never been any houses or a road on the south side of the Sucker Creek bridge.( Note the houses and road to the left in pictures above.) It has always been farm land or pasture. My guess would be further north. Possibly Lonsdale area.
October 24, 2012 at 3:59 pm
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