Engineering Marvels of Canada
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Canada's first incrementally launched bridge, Stoney Trail's north side Bow River bridge - link.
What is interesting about any of the examples already provided in this thread is how many people use or see these builds and never ever spare a thought as to how much engineering went into these structures. This Stoney Trail bridge would be a prime example - motorists use it without giving it a second thought even though it was an amazing build and engineering feat at the time of it's construction in Canada. |
The spiral train tunnel in the BC Rockies. Sorry no pic.
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quebec's crumbling infrastructure
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Hydro-Quebec's hydroelectric plants - providing up to 40,000 MW of clean energy for the province. Truly a set of massive projects on a scale to behold.
http://www.hydroquebec.com/about/our-energy/ |
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https://www.hydro.mb.ca/corporate/fa...stations.shtml The Old Pinawa Dam and generating station, looks like a Roman ruin http://www.granite.mb.ca/oldpinawa/images/damfront.jpg http://www.granite.mb.ca/oldpinawa/spillwaytrails.html |
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Nalcor's Bull Arm Fabrication Site, which builds our oil-drilling platforms and ships. Via FB:
http://i64.tinypic.com/nd8tgz.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/15wcjzm.jpg http://i63.tinypic.com/foiwjc.png The Bell Island Mines - I forget the claim to fame, but there's something unique about them in terms of their size or the percentage of them under the sea. Red is the outline of the island, and the rest outside of that is the undersea portion of the mines. http://i68.tinypic.com/m9t8r7.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/2e530ud.jpg http://i64.tinypic.com/14ipekw.jpg |
How about the St. Andrews Lock and Dam at Lockport, Manitoba? Last camere curtain style dam in the world!
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/imag...ockanddam5.jpg http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/stan...ckanddam.shtml |
The roof of West Edmonton Mall's World Waterpark was the first of its kind.
http://www.edmontonrealestate.ca/r/4...n_mall_592.jpg Source: http://www.edmontonrealestate.ca/blo...ater-park.html |
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The guy in the traveller would just have to hope the engineers had got it right this time, which wasn't exactly a given in the light of the Quebec Bridge disaster around this same time. In that case, the poorly designed cantilever section ended up a twisted pile of steel with dozens of fatalities -- http://cdn.ipernity.com/146/10/87/36...96d0a1.800.jpg 4502. The Cantilever Bridge, Abitibi Canyon par wintorbos, on ipernity |
The Canso Causeway, opened in 1955….linking mainland Nova Scotia with Cape Breton Island:
In the early 1950’s the face of Cape Porcupine was quarried and the rock-fill placed into the Strait of Canso to provide a roadbed for a highway (now Trans Canada 104) and railway Prior to that there had been car and railway ferries. It’s 1.4km across with a base width of 244m at the deepest point of 66m. On the Cape Breton side there is a swing-bridge over a ship canal https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_...2/IMG_5034.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...2/IMG_5029.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7...0Scan10119.JPG |
The space arm, cable tv & peanut butter
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Instant mashed potatoes
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-st...-13_dblbig.jpg cbc Edward Anton Maria Asselbergs (1927–1996) was a Dutch-Canadian food chemist famous for inventing the modern process of producing instant mashed potato flakes. wookiepedia |
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