It's taken me a lot of years to get used to calling this the Iron Workers' Memorial Bridge. It started out as the Second Narrows Bridge. On June 17, 1958, near the end of the work day, without warning, two sections of the unfinished bridge snapped off and fell in to Burrard Inlet taking nearly 80 workers with them. An engineering miscalculation involving a temporary support was the cause of the collapse.
Eighteen bridge workers and one diver died.
The lower bridge further in the distance is the CN Rail Second Narrows Bridge which raises for boat traffic.
The Lion's Gate Bridge spans the first narrows of Burrard Inlet.
