Pont Émery-Sicard

{{short description|Covered bridge in Quebec, Canada}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=November 2020}}

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{{Infobox bridge

|name=Pont Émery-Sicard

|image=Emery_Sicard.jpg

|coordinates={{coord|48.643333|-78.005}}

|carries=Road Bridge

|crosses=Harricana River

|locale=Amos

|design=Town lattice

|material=Wood

|length=66m

|width=

|clearance=3,10m

|open=1946}}

The pont Émery-Sicard is a covered bridge in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada.{{Cite web|title=À la découverte de l'arrière-pays et de ses ponts couverts|url=https://www.tourisme-abitibi-temiscamingue.org/page-circuit/ponts-couverts/|access-date=2020-11-18|website=Tourisme Abitibi-Témiscamingue|language=fr-CA}}

Among the last in Quebec, 34 covered bridges were constructed in Abitibi, and are associated with the colonisation of the region in the early 1900s.{{Cite web|last=Arbour|first=Gérald|date=|title=Covered Bridges of Quebec|url=http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/article-463/Covered_Bridges_of_Quebec.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-18|website=Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française|language=fr-CA}} Today fewer than half of them are extant.

The single-lane bridge is of Lattice truss bridge design. This design was modified by the Quebec Ministry of Colonisation and was used for more than 500 covered bridges in Quebec.{{cite web |last1=Lefrançois |first1=Jean |title=Les ponts couverts au Québec |url=http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/resourcecentre/readingroom/conference/conf2004/docs/s10/francois.pdf |accessdate=4 November 2020|language=fr-CA}} Unlike most bridges of the design, the pont du Petit-Quatre has higher windows and 3 inch trusses rather than the usual 2in.

Built in 1946 to replace an earlier 1934 bridge which had burnt down. It was renovated in 1964 and again in 2010.{{Cite web|title=pont du Petit-Quatre|url=http://pontscouverts.com/blogue/pont-emery-sicard/|access-date=2020-11-04|website=Les ponts couverts au Québec|language=fr-CA}}

It is listed in the répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec.{{cite web |title=Pont Émery-Sicard |url=https://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=115352&type=bien |website=Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec |accessdate=18 November 2020|language=fr-CA}}