Lions Gate Bridge · 88th Birthday · 12 November 1938–2026 · 1938–2026
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Correction log

DatePageWhat was wrongWhat we changed
10 November 2026Museum: 21 January 1983Dated the crane strike 22 January, the day of the first report, and said a 60-metre crane hit the deck.Dated it Friday 21 January, as the reports do, and said that the crane’s boom hit a side truss.
10 November 2026Museum: 24 April 1930Said the freighter Losmar wrecked a span of the Second Narrows Bridge and closed it until 1934; that closure came from a later accident.Gives only the Losmar strike, from the Victoria Daily Times of 25 April 1930.
10 November 2026Museum: 12 October 1962Said Typhoon Freda left the bridge undamaged; we found no source for that.Removed it; the entry gives only the trees blown down in Stanley Park, from CBC News.
10 November 2026Museum: 4 February 2024Said the bridge closed to clear fallen trees.It was a closure for scheduled tree removal, 7:30 to 11 a.m., announced two days before.
10 November 2026Museum: 12 November 1938Gave Mrs. Mary Sutton’s age as 75 without saying that the Sun’s headline made her 76.Gives both, and why she was 75 that morning: The Province wrote that she would be 76 in three weeks.
10 November 2026Museum: 10 December 2004Said Ottawa announced the national historic site on 24 March 2004.The announcement was on 24 March 2005; the release itself is dated 2004 in error.
10 November 2026Museum: 18 December 1954 and 27 January 1990Named The Vancouver Sun as the source of two pages that are from The Province.Both now cite The Province: 18 December 1954, p.3, and 28 January 1990, pp.1 and 4.