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The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
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Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing
Steel-truss bridge across Burrard Inlet in British Columbia, Canada
The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, also called the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and Second Narrows Bridge, is the second bridge constructed at the Second (east) Narrows of Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Originally named the Second Narrows…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Municipality in British Columbia, Canada
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Burrard Inlet
Coastal fjord in southwestern British Columbia, Canada
Burrard Inlet is a shallow-sided fjord in the northwestern Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada. Formed during the last Ice Age, it separates the City of Vancouver and the rest of the lowland Burrard Peninsula to the south from the coastal slopes of the North Shore…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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