Hagwilget Bridge Follow-up

We found the bridge number three!  I also found some old photos of the previous iterations of this bridge.  This is too cool not to share so here it is:

This is the first bridge from a British Columbia Archives photo:

Can you imagine walking across this?

The bridge is most ingeniously constructed on the suspension principle, but the platform being only supported by a few dry withes gives to the bridge even a greater appearance of frailness than perhaps it deserves. [Thomas Elwyn, Sept. 4, 1866]

In 1872, as part of a Canadian pacific Railway Survey for the Dominion Government, Charles Horetzky passed through the Gitskan village at Hagwilget. While there, Horetzky took the above photograph and noted that:

The bridge is built entirely of wood, fastened together by withes and branches; its height above the roaring waters beneath is fifty feet, and it sways under the weight of a man, to try even the nerves of a Blondin ^3.[Horetzky 1874:103]

This is a photo of the second and third bridges:

The first bridge to replace the aboriginal bridge was built by the wire and cable company of Craddock and Co. No roads lead to the bridge, so Craddock also had to build connecting roads. Never popular, the Craddock Bridge was too narrow for cars and swayed too much in the winds. It was replaced by a more substantial bridge in 1931, and moved to another location up the Bulkley River as a footbridge (Cline n.d.).

The 1931 bridge is the one in use today. 

The old one, used as a foodbridge, looks like this yesterday:

I knew you'd be wondering!