McNamee-Priceville Footbridge

[1] The original Priceville footbridge was constructed in 1938 with a single span stretching all the way across the river, but the bridge was wrecked during the spring freshet of 1939, killing three people.

The following quote is from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission website: Thomas Wilson saved Lawrence R. Price from drowning, Priceville, New Brunswick, May 10, 1939.

While Price, 27, laborer, was crossing the Miramichi River on a wire-cable footbridge, one of four cables sustaining the bridge broke.

Price, who was 245 feet from the bank, became entangled in wire netting that formed a side of the bridge, only his head being above the surface.

Another man replaced Wilson's companion; and they made two trips to the bridge, on the second attempt reaching it 125 feet from the bank.