# Taschereau Bridge

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**Taschereau Bridge** is a bridge linking [Pincourt](/source/Pincourt,_Quebec), on [Île Perrot](/source/%C3%8Ele_Perrot), to [Vaudreuil-Dorion](/source/Vaudreuil-Dorion), in the [Vaudreuil-Soulanges RMC](/source/Vaudreuil-Soulanges_Regional_County_Municipality,_Quebec) across the West Channel of the [Ottawa River](/source/Ottawa_River). The bridge was originally built in 1925, and was doubled in 1964, as part of the same project as [Galipeault Bridge](/source/Galipeault_Bridge), which links the island to [Montreal Island](/source/Montreal_Island), but it has been maintained independently since then. Both bridges carry four lanes of [Quebec Autoroute 20](/source/Quebec_Autoroute_20), which becomes Harwood Boulevard on the [Dorion](/source/Vaudreuil-Dorion) side. The bridge also carries a bicycle path, and is part of [Route Verte 5](/source/Route_Verte).[1]

The widening of this bridge and [Galipeault Bridge](/source/Galipeault_Bridge) in 1964, both of them from two lanes to four, was done in a bid to appease [Perrot Island](/source/Perrot_Island) residents and merchants, who were worried that the construction of nearby [Île aux Tourtes Bridge](/source/%C3%8Ele_aux_Tourtes_Bridge), which provides a way around the island, would hurt their businesses.[2] A medium-size shopping mall, [Le Faubourg de l'Île](/source/Le_Faubourg_de_l'%C3%8Ele), was built next to the bridge on the [Pincourt](/source/Pincourt,_Quebec) side, at the Cardinal Léger exit.

Like Galipeault Bridge, which it continues, Taschereau Bridge was built next to a [Grand Trunk Railroad](/source/Grand_Trunk_Railroad) bridge that was built in 1854, and was the first fixed link between Montreal and the mainland.[2] The bridge was named after [Louis-Alexandre Taschereau](/source/Louis-Alexandre_Taschereau), who was [Premier](/source/Premiers_of_Quebec) of [Quebec](/source/Quebec) at the time of its inauguration.

## See also

- [List of bridges in Canada](/source/List_of_bridges_in_Canada)
- [List of crossings of the Ottawa River](/source/List_of_crossings_of_the_Ottawa_River)

## References

1. Vélo Québec. ["Bridges and crossing points"](http://www.velo.qc.ca/english/index.php?page=transportation). Retrieved 2009-08-18.

1. Bélisle, Michel (2007). *De l'Isle aux Tourtes à Vaudreuil-Dorion*. Collectif pour l'histoire de Vaudreuil-Dorion. p. 263. ISBN 978-2-9810200-0-0.

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