Wallace Avenue - Dundas Street West Footbridge, built 1907, Wallace Avenue and Sousa Mendes Street, Toronto, April 22, 1915. Image: City of Toronto Archives
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Resource ID
8369
Access
Open
Credit Line
City of Toronto Archives
Date of Creation
22 April 1915
Keywords
bridge, urban planning, Railway, Junction, infrastructure, Junction Triangle, Dundas Street West, Wallace Avenue
Program Category
Tours
Rights
Public Domain
Caption
Wallace Avenue - Dundas Street West Footbridge, built 1907, Wallace Avenue and Sousa Mendes Street, Toronto, April 22, 1915. Image: City of Toronto Archives
Description
The Wallace Avenue Footbridge, also known as the Wallace Avenue Pedestrian Bridge, was built in 1907. Constructed so that local residents could easily cross the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks that ran through the neighbourhood, the style of bridge is a rare type of steel, multi-span pony truss and riveted truss bridge that was common and easy to construct in the early part of the twentieth century. The Ontario Bridge Company erected the bridge as a temporary pedestrian overpass until a more permanent solution was found; however, the bridge became so popular that it was never taken down.