The bridge was designed by the architectural firm of Puntin, O'Leary and Coxall, as well as noted consulting engineer Claude A.P.

[1] The bridge is highly ornamented with Egyptian motifs, lamp standards, multiple flag-staffs, glazed terra-cotta balusters and buffalo heads.

[2] It was opened on November 10, 1930, by Premier J. T. M. Anderson and dedicated as a memorial to the Saskatchewan soldiers who died in World War I.

Although spaces were provided for the installation of plaques with the names of province's war dead, they were never used.

Sixty-five years later, a separate World War I memorial on the grounds of the legislative building was constructed.