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Abandoned, Then Embraced: The Kinsol Trestle
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Yes, I had opportunity to go visit the lighthouse at Peggy's Cove and it's unique in its own way and it's I suppose, world famous. It has a post office inside the little lighthouse which is way out on a rock outcropping at Peggy's Cove. So it's a, you know, you see it on postcards and everything else but that's a significant piece of historical history for Canada on the east coast and we've got this here and this has been hidden away for so many years. There's so much history involved with this. This is a much bigger structure than the lighthouse at Peggy's Cove but the engineering and the, just the logistics of building a bridge of this magnitude way out in the bush. The way that they did that is just phenomenal. You go out now and you wonder, How did they ever build this way back when they did that without the, you know, use of helicopters and everything that we have today? So, it is a huge testament to the engineering and the, you know, work ethic of the people involved.

 

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