Engineering Marvels of Canada

[balletomane]

I'll nominate the Red River Floodway.


http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/redriverfloodway1.shtml


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Floodway

[Beedok]

Welland Canal:

http://www.welland.library.on.ca/dig...H/fourth10.htm

[MonctonRad]

Confederation Bridge (NB-PEI)

[speedog]

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.

[Denscity]

The spiral train tunnel in the BC Rockies. Sorry no pic.

[Bandage]

quebec's crumbling infrastructure

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by speedog

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.

What does "incrementally launched" mean?

[wave46]

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/

[balletomane]

Originally Posted by wave46

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/

Manitoba like Quebec also has an impressive collection of massive generating stations. Those plants are absolutely massive, the size of the Empire State Building (horizontally), with water flowing through them every second. I'm not sure about Quebec but our newer generating stations look like industrial park warehouses, but some of the older ones on the Winnipeg River are quite beautiful architecturally.

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/spillwaytrails.html

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by Bandage

quebec's crumbling infrastructure

Only 12 posts and you already trying to make friends here, aren't you ?

[speedog]

Originally Posted by Andy6

What does "incrementally launched" mean?

Built on one side and moved in increments to the other side. BC's Park Bridge in the Kicking Horse canyon east of Golden was built in the same fashion.

[SignalHillHiker]

Nalcor's Bull Arm Fabrication Site, which builds our oil-drilling platforms and ships. Via FB:







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.

[balletomane]

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/stan...ckanddam.shtml

[itom 987]

The roof of West Edmonton Mall's World Waterpark was the first of its kind.

Source: http://www.edmontonrealestate.ca/blo...ater-park.html

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Only 12 posts and you already trying to make friends here, aren't you ?

take a look at those twelve. A pattern: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/sear...archid=1697801

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

take a look at those twelve. A pattern: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/sear...archid=1697801

He's got a thing for us. There's gotta be a girl involved.

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by speedog

Built on one side and moved in increments to the other side. BC's Park Bridge in the Kicking Horse canyon east of Golden was built in the same fashion.

Thanks. Reminds me of how they did it in the early 1900s. I have dozens of early Canadian bridge images in my postcard collection but one of my favourites is the construction of the Abitibi Canyon Bridge.

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 --


4502. The Cantilever Bridge, Abitibi Canyon par wintorbos, on ipernity

[ghYHZ]

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

[WhipperSnapper]

The space arm, cable tv & peanut butter

[MolsonExport]

Instant mashed potatoes


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.
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