通往过去的桥梁(A bridge to the past)

1928年，圣阿加泰德·洛比尼埃的红桥（Pont Rouge）在帕尔默河上修建时，盖梁桥在魁北克已经司空见惯。从美国进口的简单设计允许相对未经培训的工人快速建造这样的过境点红桥（无论是否被漆成红色，通常称为红桥）出现在法属加拿大人农村需要方便过河的地方——在19世纪末至20世纪50年代建造了多达1500座。如今，只有不到100个国家仍然屹立不倒，其中一些——比如这一个——受到地方和省级机构的历史保护。
原文：
When the Pont Rouge (Red Bridge) of Sainte-Agathe-de-Lotbinière was built over the Palmer River in 1928, covered bridges were already commonplace here in Quebec. Simple designs imported from the United States allowed relatively untrained workers to quickly construct crossings like this. 'Ponts rouges' (often called this whether or not they were painted red) popped up wherever rural French Canadians required a convenient river crossing – as many as 1,500 were built between the late 1800s and the 1950s. Today fewer than 100 still stand, and some – like this one – are protected by local and provincial agencies for historic preservation.
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