Holiday Ayo - The Capilano Suspension Bridge is a simple suspension bridge crossing the Capilano River
in the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The current bridge is 140 metres (460 ft)
long and 70 metres (230 ft) above the river. It is part of a private facility with an admission fee, and
draws over 1.2 million visitors per year.

The bridge was originally built in 1889 by George Grant Mackay, a Scottish civil engineer and park
commissioner for Vancouver. It was originally made of hemp ropes with a deck of cedar planks, and was
replaced with a wire cable bridge in 1903. In 1910 Edward Mahon purchased the Capilano Suspension
Bridge. "Mac" MacEachran purchased the Bridge from Mahon in 1935 and invited local natives to place
their totem poles in the park, adding a native theme.
In 1945, he sold the bridge to Henri Aubeneau. The bridge was completely rebuilt in 1956.

The park was sold to Nancy Stibbard, the current owner, in 1983. Annual attendance increased, and in
May 2004, Treetops Adventures was opened, consisting of seven footbridges suspended between
old-growth Douglas Fir trees on the west side of the canyon, forming a walkway up to 30 metres (98 ft)
above the forest floor.

The bridge has been featured as a setting in episodes of several television series, including MacGyver,
Sliders, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, and Psych.

In 1974, social psychologists Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron conducted a well-known experiment on the
bridge. Men approached by a female researcher on the bridge were more likely to call her later than
men approached on a more solid bridge across the river. Dutton and Aron argued that this supported the
theory that the men were mis-attributing the arousal caused by fear to sexual attraction toward the
woman. This research supported Stanley Schachter's two-factor theory of emotion.