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Chief Glen Sanders, who was responsible for extinguishing two fires at the Trestle (1988 and 1998), drew a comparison between an historical landmark on the east coast and the Kinsol Trestle on the west coast:

AUDIO: Glen Sanders
I had an 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...you see it on postcards and everything else but that's a significant piece of....history for Canada on the east coast and we've got this (the Kinsol Trestle) 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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Glen Sanders on signficance of Trestle
20 July 2010
Kinsol Trestle, Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island, BC Canada


Credits:
Glen Sanders, Speaker
Shawnigan Lake Historical Society