Pont des Chutes

Covered bridge in Quebec, Canada

Pont des Chutes

Coordinates| 48°42′17″N 77°26′41″W﻿ / ﻿48.704722°N 77.444722°W﻿ / 48.704722; -77.444722
Carries| Road Bridge
Crosses| Rivière Laflamme
Locale| La Morandière-Rochebaucourt
Characteristics
Design| Town lattice
Material| Wood
Total length| 64m
Clearance above| 4.42m
History
Opened| 1954
Closed| 2010
Location

The pont des Chutes is a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada.[1]

Among the last in Quebec, 34 covered bridges were constructed in Abitibi, and are associated with the colonisation of the region in the early 1900s.[2] Today fewer than half of them are extant.

The single-lane bridge is of Lattice truss bridge design.[3] This design was modified by the Quebec Ministry of Colonisation and was used for more than 500 covered bridges in Quebec.[4]

Built in 1954, it was severely damaged in 1961 and again in 1964 when the central pillar failed. The capacity was 8 tonnes.[3] It is so named because of the rapids (chutes) underneath it.

The bridge does not benefit from any provincial or municipal protection.

## References

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1. ^ "À la découverte de l'arrière-pays et de ses ponts couverts". Tourisme Abitibi-Témiscamingue (in French). Retrieved 3 November 2020.
2. ^ Arbour, Gérald. "Covered Bridges of Quebec". Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
3. ^ a b "pont des Chutes". Les ponts couverts au Québec (in French). Retrieved 4 November 2020.
4. ^ Lefrançois, Jean. "Les ponts couverts au Québec" (PDF) (in French). Retrieved 4 November 2020.

## See also

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* List of covered bridges in Quebec

* Road portal
* Transport portal
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