August 7, 1927
The Peace Bridge between Buffalo, New York, and the town of Fort Erie in Ontario, Canada, was officially opened. This international bridge, which has since become one of North America’s most vital commercial ports, was built at the east end of Lake Erie and approximately 12 miles (19;3 kilometers) upriver of Niagara Falls. The Peace Bridge was so named to commemorate more than a century of harmony between the United States and England in in the time since the War of 1812.
A crowd of about 100,000 people was on hand for the opening ceremony at the American end of the structure. The dignitaries in attendance included the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VIII); Prince George, his brother; William Lyon MacKenzie King, prime minister of Canada; Stanley Baldwin, prime minister of the United Kingdom; Charles Dawes, U.S vice president; Frank Kellogg, U.S. secretary of state; Al Smith, governor of New York; and Howard Ferguson, premier of Ontario.
“May this bridge be not only a physical and material link between Canada and the United States, but may it also be symbolic of the maintenance of their friendly contracts by those who live on both sides of this frontier,” proclaimed the Prince of Wales during his remarks at the ceremony.
Photo Credit: Doug Kerr (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en)
For more information on the Peace Bridge, please check out https://www.peacebridge.com/index.php/about-us-sp-1874923374/peace-bridge-facts2
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