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In 1911, the Cambie Street Bridge was renovated, replacing the original wooden structure with a steel swing-span drawbridge. The bridge was named the "Connaught Bridge" but the name never stuck, and locals kept calling it the Cambie Bridge.
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Connaught Bridge:
searcharchives.vancouver.ca/point-grey-partnership…
searcharchives.vancouver.ca/pedestrians-and-carria…
Duchess of Connaught:
searcharchives.vancouver.ca/duchess-of-connaught-a…
Cambie Bridge:
searcharchives.vancouver.ca/south-end-of-cambie-st…
Henry John Cambie:
searcharchives.vancouver.ca/henry-john-cambie-esq
Cambie bridge damaged by fire:
searcharchives.vancouver.ca/portion-of-connaught-b…
searcharchives.vancouver.ca/fire-damaged-section-o…
Current Cambie Bridge:
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cambie_Br_in_1986,…
Steve Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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