Abstract
During his career as a consulting engineer, Philip Louis Pratley of Montréal, Quebec, was responsible for the design and erection of many of Canada's most outstanding long-span highway bridges. Among them are the Jacques Cartier Bridge (1930) at Montréal; the Île d'Orléans Bridge (1935) at Québec City, Quebec; the Lions' Gate Bridge (1938) at Vancouver, British Columbia; the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge (1955) at Halifax, Nova Scotia; and the Burlington Bay Skyway Bridge (1958) at Hamilton, Ontario. For over 40 years Pratley was at the forefront of his profession in Canada in designing and supervising the erection of bridge structures that embodied the latest state-of-the-art advances in design theory, construction technologies, and structural materials; his published technical writings conveyed the latest developments in bridge design and construction practice. Two of his structures; namely, the Jacques Cartier Bridge and the Lions' Gate Bridge, have attained a symbolic importance as national icons. The present article provides an overview of his outstanding career as a bridge design engineer. Key words: Philip Pratley, Monsarrat & Pratley, bridge design, suspension bridges, cantilever bridges.
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