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How a famous Montreal bridge is getting a second life at a camp for Scouts

How a famous Montreal bridge is getting a second life at a camp for Scouts

Global News
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 9:26 AM GMT

The Dunn Memorial Scout Camp's proposed footbridge is a winner of the original Champlain Bridge Material Reuse Competition. The old steel parts will be used to make a new crossing.

After being decommissioned nearly four years ago, part of the original Champlain Bridge, the steel structure that connected the Island of Montreal to the south shore, will live on at the longest continuously open Scout camp in Quebec.

A few pieces of the bridge will go toward a brand new crossing — but of a different kind. They will be used to build a footbridge at the sprawling Dunn Memorial Scout Camp in Elgin, Que., about 80 kilometres southwest of Montreal near the United States border. The camp, which has been open since 1954, spans about 100 acres and borders the Châteauguay River.

Cory Ovans, chair of the camp, said the footbridge will be constructed above a swamp to allow Scouts and campers to officially cross between two camps at the site. It will also replace the old one, which has slowly rotted away after nearly 20 years.

“Our 70th anniversary is next year,” Ovans said in a recent interview. “So we’re hoping to have the bridge at least partially completed by then because we’re going to do a big field day in celebration of the 70th.”

The Dunn Memorial Scout Camp is one of 11 winners of the original Champlain Bridge Material Reuse Competition. More than 400 steel components dismantled from the bridge will be used in different initiatives, ranging from a residential greenhouse to works of art.

Sandra Martel, CEO of Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated,  said the variety of projects will honour the memory of an important structure in Montreal’s history. The old bridge over the St. Lawrence River is set to be fully deconstructed by January 2024.

“The participants have shown creativity and innovation, and we look forward to seeing these proposals come to life,” Martel said in a statement in late April, when the winners were announced.

At the Scout camp, the footbridge comprised of the historic pieces of steel will officially be called the Sunshine Bridge. The moniker is in honour of Cecile Antink, whose Scout leader name is Sunshine. The bridge will be used to commute on the old Champlain Bridge every day “so it’s particularly special to her.”

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