Pile driving for the piers commenced on August 20 1928 and the crew began to pour the concrete piers on October 13. A relatively mild winter allowed the work to continue, with the last pier poured in January. This schedule resulted in one fatality.  On January 23, Stuart Wilson was dynamiting large cakes of ice as they approached the bridgework.  He died due to an ill-timed or defective fuse.

On January 28 the river froze completely, which made the construction of the superstructure easier. A second accident occurred in February when a timber fell from the top of the bridge hitting the deck.  Joe Rousseau was knocked over and fractured his ankle and ribs.  These events remind us of the very different working conditions of the time, with no hard hats or safety harnesses used. 

The Kersley Farmers’ Institute had petitioned to have the timber for the bridge cut locally, but the work was completed in Vancouver.  Each piece was cut to size, treated with creosote, numbered to identify where it was to be placed, and shipped to Quesnel by rail.  Unfortunately, the foreman in charge of the framing was fired before the bridge was built and took the building key with him.  Bert Allcock, who later became the Department of Public Works’ General Foreman for the Cariboo District, was able to reconstruct the key based on the numbered timbers and a plan for the trusses.  He also was responsible for preparing the western approach to the bridge.  His crew dug fill by hand from a nearby hill, moving it to the roadbed in two dump trunks.  They removed enough dirt that subsequently two houses were built on the site.