Editing Covered bridge (section)

==== Canada ====
Between 1969 and 2015, the number of surviving covered bridges in Canada declined from about 400 to under 200.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/throwback-thursday-covered-bridges |title=Throwback Thursday: Covered bridges |website=Canadian Geographic |last1=Walker |first1=Nick |date=28 May 2015 |access-date=8 January 2019}}</ref>

In 1900, [[List of covered bridges in Quebec|Quebec]] had an estimated 1,000 covered bridges.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/portal/page/portal/grand_public/vehicules_promenade/reseau_routier/structures/ponts_couverts |title=Ponts couverts |publisher=Transports Quebec |language=fr-CA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224014629/http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/portal/page/portal/grand_public/vehicules_promenade/reseau_routier/structures/ponts_couverts |archive-date=24 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Relative to the rest of North America, Quebec was late in building covered bridges, with the busiest decade for construction being the 1930s.<ref name="quebec">{{cite web |url=http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/resourcecentre/readingroom/conference/conf2004/docs/s10/francois.pdf |title=Les ponts couverts au Québec, héritage précieux |publisher=Ministère des Transports du Québec |language=fr-CA |last1=Lefrançois |first1=Jean |date=2004 |access-date=8 January 2019}}</ref> Initially, the designs were varied, but around 1905, the design was standardised to the ''Town québécois'', a variant on the [[Lattice truss bridge|lattice]] truss patented by [[Ithiel Town]] in 1820. The designer is unknown. About 500 of these were built in the first half of the 20th century.<ref name="quebec" /> They were often built by local settlers using local materials, according to standard plans.<ref name="conwill" /> The last agricultural colony was founded in 1948, and the last bridge was built by the Ministry of Colonisation in 1958 in [[Lebel-sur-Quévillon]].<ref name="quebec" /> There are now 82 covered bridges in Quebec, [[Transports Québec]] including the [[Félix-Gabriel-Marchand Bridge]], the province's longest covered bridge.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.transports.gouv.qc.ca/fr/salle-de-presse/nouvelles/Pages/programmation-routiere-2018-2020-outaouais.aspx?rev=636825413055456545 |title=Programmation routière 2018-2020 - Plus de 157 M$ pour améliorer la sécurité et la qualité de vie des usagers de la route en Outaouais |publisher=Transports Québec |language=fr-CA |date=5 March 2018 |access-date=8 January 2019 |archive-date=19 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919215232/https://www.transports.gouv.qc.ca/fr/salle-de-presse/nouvelles/Pages/programmation-routiere-2018-2020-outaouais.aspx?rev=636825413055456545 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In Quebec covered bridges were sometimes known as ''pont rouges'' (red bridges) because of their typical colour.<ref name="conwill" />{{rp|11, 87}}

Like Quebec, [[New Brunswick]] continued to build covered bridges into the 1950s, peaking at about 400 covered bridges. These mostly used the Howe, Town, and Burr trusses. Today, there are [[List of covered bridges in New Brunswick|58 covered bridges in New Brunswick]], including the world's longest, the [[Hartland Bridge]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/dti/bridges_ferries/content/covered_bridges.html |title=Covered Bridges |date=7 October 2011 |publisher=Government of New Brunswick |access-date=11 July 2019}}</ref> 

Ontario has just two remaining covered bridges, the [[West Montrose Covered Bridge]] and the very short [[Latchford, Ontario#Bridges|covered bridge in Latchford]].