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Demolition of the New Bridge

Black and white photograph of the iron bridge destroyed by the ice breakup of March 19 1936 with the structures remaining in the river and the Sainte-Anne Church on one shore. A gathering of seven people observes the damage from the remains of the footbridge on the other shore.

Debris from the new bridge in the Sainte-Anne river, archival photograph, 1936.

Source: Société d’histoire de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade

On March 19, 1936, the ice breakup sweeps away the bridge erected around forty years earlier.