19381776 Club
Roosevelt and Mackenzie King cut one ribbon, open a bridge over the St. Lawrence
Twenty-five thousand people watched two heads of government share the same car for the first crossing.
By the summer of 1938, a construction crew had spent sixteen months pushing steel across a chain of islands between New York and Ontario, finishing ten weeks ahead of schedule. On August 18, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King met at Ivy Lea to jointly cut the ribbon on the Thousand Islands Bridge, then rode together in the first car to cross it. More than 25,000 people turned out to watch two nations open a single road between them…
