Residents fighting to save New Brunswick’s beloved “kissing bridges”
RIVERVIEW, N.B. — Raymond Boucher says if you haven’t shared a kiss beneath the beams of a covered bridge, you’re missing out.
A longtime New Brunswick resident, Boucher has fond memories of travelling through two covered bridges with the woman who would eventually become his wife on their way to her grandfather’s house when he was just 19.
Now at 75, Boucher says both of those bridges — and many more — are gone.
“In 1953, we had 340 covered bridges in the province, and we now have 58,” he said in a phone interview from Riverview, N.B. “Since 2004, we’ve lost 6.”