Bridging Saint John Harbour - Harold E. Wright and Joseph Goguen - Google Books

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In the 1850s, lumber mill owner W. Kilby Reynolds, with engineer Edward R. Serrell, succeeded in building the first suspension bridge to connect divided Saint John. This operated as a toll crossing until 1858, when it became a government-owned structure.…