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Why Kelowna's first suspension bridge was only open for a year | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source


Image Credit: Submitted/Old Kelowna, Lesley Park
January 23, 2021 - 8:00 AM
Pat McBride was looking for a business venture to start up when he moved to Kelowna in the 1960s.
So, after buying 100 acres of land from the Kirschner family that overlooked Mission Creek, he built a suspension bridge 300 feet above the sheer canyon walls in 1966.
It was about a year later when the wind tunnel effect of those sheer walls became the project’s downfall.
“It was a real hot day and I was in downtown Kelowna,” McBride told iNFOnews.ca. “That created a wind way up the canyon and it blew the bridge over.” ....

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