Alexandra Bridge Park lies within the lower Fraser Canyon of British Columbia, Canada.

[8] In 1862, the government awarded Trutch & Thomas Spence the southward leg of the road to Pike's Riffle along the west shore.

Steamboats transshipped all the steelwork from San Francisco to Yale, from where First Nations completed the conveyance by canoe.

Stretched over the timber towers of the superstructure were steel cables, from which iron rods were attached to the wooden deck.

The construction costs, which Trutch financed, were to be recovered by collecting a specified schedule of tolls (pedestrians being free) over a seven-year period.

[10] The bridge, which was named prior to construction,[17] commemorates the marriage of Princess Alexandra of Denmark to the future Edward VII that year.

Soon after, Trutch became Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and Surveyor-General, which created a conflict of interest as the bridge owner-operator.

An independent review estimated the toll revenue as £58,000 and recommended that the government pay Trutch a discounted amount of £40,000.

[21] During the 1894 flood, one of the cable anchorages was damaged, which twisted the bridge deck,[9] when the river rose 27 metres (90 ft) from low water level.

[20] The bridge was an integral part of the reconstruction of the original wagon road destroyed earlier by the railway builders.

Since the bridge could handle rigs no longer than 9.1 metres (30 ft), the opening of the Hope–Princeton highway in 1949 provided an alternative route.

Visitors must cross the active Canadian National Railway (CN) track to reach the suspension bridge beyond the park perimeter.