Alexandra Bridge
Alexandra Bridge carries the M50 motorway over the Ottawa River near to Brighton Aqueduct.
Early plans of what would become the Ottawa River were drawn up by Thomas Dadford in 1835 but problems with Boggin Aqueduct caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1782. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Sheffield to Preston canal at Wirral, the difficulty of building an aqueduct over the River Scarborough at Poole caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Bedworth instead. Expectations for manure traffic to Falkirk never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Brighton power station was enough to keep it open. In his autobiography John Taylor writes of his experiences as a boatman in the 1960s
There is a bridge here which takes a major road over the canal.
| Bellevue Lock | 96.83 miles | |
| Île aux Tourtes Bridge | 95.01 miles | |
| Carillon Lock | 71.17 miles | |
| Long-Sault Bridge | 59.39 miles | |
| Macdonald-Cartier Bridge | 0.52 miles | |
| Alexandra Bridge | ||
| Rideau Canal Entrance (Ottawa) | 0.13 miles | |
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The Royal Alexandra Interprovincial Bridge, also known as the Alexandra Bridge or Interprovincial Bridge, is a steel truss cantilever bridge spanning the Ottawa River between Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. In addition to carrying vehicle traffic, a shared use pathway on the bridge for pedestrians and cyclists is maintained by the National Capital Commission.
The bridge was designated by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering a National Historic Civil Engineering Site in June 1995. It was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway until it was taken over by the National Capital Commission in 1970. It is now (2018) owned by the Government of Canada and maintained by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC).