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Red Bridge enhancement project recycles history Community members who love local history have a unique opportunity to become a part of it with the latest Communities in Bloom project happening downtown. “Last year we decided for the bicentennial that we would focus on the Red Bridge,” says Colleen Stainton, a fundraiser with the local Communities in Bloom initiative. “It was a jungle of weeds down there and didn’t really have anything that signified its importance to Kamloops.”
status. “It has a beautiful new sign and a bench we won from the clean up and it’s all been landscaped, and currently we are finishing up some information kiosks that have been placed at the bridge entrance
“We thought we were going to have to start from scratch, but then we found Dotwo kiosks that used to be on Victoria Street need in theyou 80s. They were sort of
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A shot of Victoria Street in the 1980s, (top) showing the information kiosks that the Red Bridge Enhancement Project rescued from a trip to the chopper, and are now at the Red Bridge site, refurbished and bearing the Bridges’ histories. A shot of Victoria Street, (bottom) from the days when Kamloops was only beginning to make its mark on history.
So Colleen and others went to work to honour this local piece of history beginning with a cleanup the Lorne Street entrance, followed by the creation of a new entrance reflecting its heritage
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and the down near the River’s Trail.” The kiosks are just one of the many happy surprises along the group’s journey to recognize the Red Bridge. Karen Robinson, Certified Bodywork Practitioner
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so we’ve got these wonderful historic kiosks that have been refurbished and Dosoon we will be putting up a history on three sides ofyou each ofneed them, describing the histories of the three immigration Red Bridges and the evolution help? of Kamloops as a commercial centre.” The first of the bridges was built in 1887 when the demand to get goods across the river 302 Victoria Street was-141 greater than what a 250-314-6555 canoe hauling a barge Family Sponsorship could accommodate. It was originally named the Government Bridge, but very quickly citizens began calling it the Red Bridge, due to the red hue of the Douglas Fir beams it was built of. That Do bridge was first replaced in 1912 and you need then again by a third immigration and final bridge. The help? one we use today opened in December of 1936 and was most recently updated in 2004 with $1 million worth of structural workVictoria to ensure it could 302 -141 Street 250-314-6555 support heavy transport for years to come. Temporary and Permanent Workfor Visathis project “To fundraise we are putting in a named walk– continued on page 2
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