Highway # 38 passes over the old Ontario & Quebec Railway bed, now part of the Trans-Canada Trail. The railway operated from 1881 to 1971, most of the time under the CPR. This bridge was built in 1934/1935 for the Highway # 38 which followed township roads much of the way to connect highway # 2 with # 7 (built just north of here in 1932). This was done more to create jobs, than to handle heavy traffic in the great depression.