Landmark
- The Lions Gate Bridge has become a landmark of Vancouver and the North Shore.
- The bridge was featured on the first title card of CBC supper-hour newscast Canada Now, but it was replaced with a local image in several markets.
- The bridge is often used in television broadcasts as a symbol of Vancouver; most telecasts of NHL hockey games played in Vancouver show the bridge at least once.
- The bridge is the namesake of locally-founded film company Lionsgate.
- The bridge was featured in a short sequence of the film Drawing Flies.
- The bridge was featured in the closing sequence of the film Tron: Legacy, released December 17, 2010.
- The Lions Gate Bridge was again featured as the set of 2011 film Final Destination 5 released August 12, 2011.
- The bridge was featured in the closing credits of Da Vinci's Inquest.
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Famous quotes containing the word landmark:
“They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffinedjust as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around;”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)