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    Front of postcard: "Jacquelyn's Bridge, Oakville". Verso: PRIVATE POSTCARD ; 10/18/16 ; THIS SPACE MAY BE USED FOR MESSAGES ; One of the old time bridges outside Oakville Town. These are fast disappearing to make room for new ones suited to automobile traffic."

    Sixteen Bridge

Oakville Beaver, 12 Feb 1988, p. 8     ...

    The main photograph looks north up the 16 Mile Creek, showing the bridge across Dundas Street. You can see the lane to Knox Sixteen Presebyterian Church and down to the Lions Park on the southeast side of the bridge. At the time, development had just started on the east side ...

    Construction of the level bridge crossing of the Sixteen Mile Creek at Glenorchy sometime in the 1980's. This was the second bridge to be built here. It was built on the same abutments as the first, but in 2001, the crossing became a bicycle/pedestrian crossing only as the area is ...

    The following observations have been suggested by these photographs: It appears that they were rolling the bridge trusses out from the west bank, onto the concrete piers, and that they were building the piers one at a time, possibly filling the formwork with concrete from the top. This would make ...