Provincial Funding

The Ministry of Northern Development and Mines has awarded three contracts worth almost 25 million dollars, to fix up three bridges and44 kilometers of roads in northwestern Ontario.

Carillion Canada has been given the contract to rehabilitate 18kilometers of the Trans-Canada between Vermillion Bay and Dryden.

The project also includes improvements to the Eagle River Bridge andconstruction of a new eastbound passing lane.

L.H. North will be carrying out 8.3 million dollars of work on the Butler Creek Bridge near Vermillion Bay and the Wabigoon Bridge.

Pioneer Construction has won the contract to re-surface 26 kilometersof Highway 71 south of Nestor Falls.

That project will cost 2.8 million dollars.