Gary Poirier, a 19-year-old apprentice ironworker went to work in Vancouver on June 17, 1958. He had been hired to help build the Second Narrows Bridge and he was delighted to be at a good paying job that gave him the training he hoped to use in his...
Donate to Canadian History Ehx at The highway is so long that it would run from shores of the Nile Delta in Egypt all the way down to the bottom of Cape Town, South Africa, with a few hundred kilometres to spare. Its distance would cover from the...

