About the same time Joseph Trutch was building the Alexandria Bridge, Thomas Spence was to place a bridge across the Thompson River at the site of Cook's Ferry which he named Spence's Bridge.

BC ARCHIVES A-03568 Spence's Bridge

BC ARCHIVES A-01814 Walter Moberly

Walter Moberly, a successful civil engineer, Charles Oppenheimer, a partner in the firm of Oppenheimer Brothers, and Thomas B. Lewis accepted the contract to build the section from Lytton until the road joined a junction with the wagon road to be built by Gustavus Blin Wright.