An early aerial view of the cantilever Quebec bridge , originally built to carry three tracks of the National Transcontinental railway near Quebec. when nearing completion on August 29, 1907after four years of construction, the south arm and part of the central section of the bridge collapsed into the river killing 75 of the 86 workmen upon it. It became the world's worst bridge construction disaster . It was completed in 1919.

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