[BCMA] At the Teck Gallery: Bridge City: Links for a Fragile Peninsula, 1895-­1980

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Bridge City: Links for a Fragile Peninsula, 1895–1980 
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March 15 to June 22, 2010 



Simon Fraser University, Teck Gallery 
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The Vancouver area was once a group of separate villages accessible to 
each other mainly by water. Vancouver’s bridges changed that: they are 
the links that keep the various parts of the Lower Mainland together. 
They may not be world-famous, but we like them and many, especially 
those who use them daily, identify with them. These photographs by 
Leonard Frank and Otto Landauer document local bridge construction – 
they all emphasize bridges as ‘structure’. Now, in 2010, they also show 
the effort that went into making it possible for cars to navigate 
Greater Vancouver’s cities and towns – what you see here is money and 
effort dedicated to aiding automobile circulation. Traffic, which until 
1960 had been directed at local trips, such as shopping within 
Kerrisdale, became a regional experience, as it remains today. The 
exhibition texts discuss the histories of our bridges as well as 
offering a sampling of literature taking ‘the bridge’ as its subject. 

The exhibition is circulated by the Jewish Museum & Archives of British 
Columbia.


SFU Vancouver Campus
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
778-782-4266

Open daily during campus hours

sfu.ca/gallery

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