He is thought to be the first person over the bridge, but the narrator tells us that he was “not the first.” The previous midnight, the workers who built the bridge pushed away officials who guarded the bridge and walked with candles – their tribute to the other workers who died building the bridge – across the whole length of it. Then the electrical men come to put the lights on it, and the bridge is completed.ĭuring the opening ceremonies a cyclist breaks away from the public gathered behind police barriers. His narration moves close to the men and then far away from them, describing photographs of the building of the bridge and how the workers look like nothing more than extensions of hammers and equipment. Ondaatje begins the description of the building of the bridge with the men who pour tar, starting out in trucks well before dawn. This chapter is about the building of the of the Bloor Street Viaduct, formally named the Prince Edward Viaduct, which links eastern Toronto with the center of the city and carries traffic, water and electricity across the Don Valley.
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