Tragedy at Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge

by Eric Jamieson

Book Overview

Winner of the Lieutenant-Governor Medal On June 17, 1958, Vancouver experienced the worst industrial accident in its history when the new bridge being built across Burrard Inlet collapsed into the flooding tidal waters of Second Narrows, killing eighteen workers. Photos of the two broken spans tilted into the sea went around the world and provided the city with one of its iconic historical images, still familiar to school children half a century later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550175300
• ISBN13: 9781550175301
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"