Toll ticket for the Lion’s Gate Bridge, 1938 Tolls were charged on the new Lion’s Gate Bridge to repay investors who financed construction of the project. The debt was paid off in 1952 and the BC government bought the bridge a few years later for $6 million. The toll stayed in place for another 11 years so that commuters essentially paid for it twice. Source: North Vancouver Museum & Archives, via the McCord Museum
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Toll ticket for the Lion’s Gate Bridge, 1938

Tolls were charged on the new Lion’s Gate Bridge to repay investors who financed construction of the project. The debt was paid off in 1952 and the BC government bought the bridge a few years later for $6 million. The toll stayed in place for another 11 years so that commuters essentially paid for it twice.

Source: North Vancouver Museum & Archives, via the McCord Museum

Source: mccord-museum.qc.ca

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