Quebec City / Île SainteHélène / Sarnia / Montreal / Boston / Baltimore / New York / Conway / Portland / Toronto / Washington / London / Victoriatown / /
Company
Montreal Telegraph Company / New York Railway Company / St. Lawrence / Montreal Ocean Steamship Company / Atlantic / /
Continent
North America / Europe / /
Country
France / United States / Canada / United Kingdom / Ireland / /
Currency
Shilling / /
Event
Judicial Event / /
Facility
Today’s Victoria Bridge / VICTORIA BRIDGE / New York’s Brooklyn Bridge / Crystal Palace of Montreal / Brooklyn Bridge / Eiffel Tower / Lachine Canal / Niagara Bridge / McCord Museum of Canadian History / Crystal Palace of London / Britannia Bridge / /
IndustryTerm
chosen site / transportation / metal workers / overseas transportation / land transportation / hydraulic energy / oil / crane operators / energy / steel industry / metal / passenger transportation / then steel / automated machine tools / parallel steel cables / ambitious architectural products / puddled steel / steel replaced cast iron / manufacturing / steel / /
NaturalFeature
Lake Champlain / Ohio river / Niagara / Mississippi river / Lawrence River / Richelieu Valley / Menai Straits / Lake Ontario / /
Organization
Council of Railway Companies / Freemasonry / United States Congress / /
Person
Robert Stephenson / John Young / Samuel Finley Breese Morse / Alexander Ross / William Fairbairn / Robert Fulton / George Stephenson / /
THE VICTORIA BRIDGE: THE 8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD © McCord Museum of Canadian History, 2002 Page 0. Introduction : A work of gigantic proportions There was a time, in bygone days, when the Victoria Bridge was considere