Pont de Des Rivières

Pont de Des Rivières, a covered wooden bridge in Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Quebec, is the only authentic Howe-type truss bridge surviving in Quebec and one of the rare road bridges of its kind in North America. Standing on the Rivière aux Brochets at a site tied to the Desrivières brothers’ early settlement and the hamlet of Malmaison, it is the third bridge built there, erected in 1884 after two earlier bridges were lost. Its original stone abutments, unusual truss system, and distinctive appearance preserve both a rare engineering form and a visible link to the region’s timber, agricultural, and settlement history.

Quebec · Canada