Rochfort Trestle, AB

Rochfort Trestle

The community was named after an English homesteader, Cowper Rochfort. The Canadian Northern Railroad constructed the railway and bridge in 1919. The trestle was built with a frame of 12 inch square timbers, to a length of 2,414 feet; the longest all wooden trestle in Western Canada. It towers 110 feet high, measured from the water level of the Paddle River. The original cost was approximately $10,969 with 222,635 FBM of timber, 11,395 pounds of iron and 4,270 linear feet of piling used in the construction. Several upgrades have taken place over the years. Throughout the years accidents and suicides have claimed many lives.

Lac Ste Anne County #28

2013

THIS ROCK
WAS DONATED BY 
TED LISS 
SE-24-57-05 
2013