Bridge Name: | Hagwilget Canyon Bridge |
Carries: | Vehicular traffic, pedestrians |
Crosses: | Bulkley River (Hagwilget Canyon) |
Locale: | Hagwilget, BC |
Design: | Suspension Bridge |
Length: | 140.2m (460feet) |
Width: | 4.9m (16.1feet) |
Height: | 80m (260feet) |
Complete: | 1931 (reinforced in 1990) |
Hagwilget Canyon Bridge is a suspension bridge over the Hagwilget Canyon on the Bulkley River, at the Wet'suwet'en village of Hagwilget, British Columbia. The current bridge was constructed in 1931, and later reinforced in 1990.
Three previous bridges spanned the same location, the first constructed by Wet'suwet'en people, generations before white settlement. The Wet'suwet'en later reinforced their wooden-pole bridge using cable abandoned after the disbandment of the Russian–American Telegraph expedition.[1] [2]