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"Telegraph Line to the Klondike" Announced 13 November 1897Mr Charles R Hosmer, General Manager of the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Company [sic], General Manager of the Pacific Postal Telegraph Company, and a director in the Commercial Cable Company, says that within the next year the Canadian Government will undoubtedly construct and complete a telegraph line to Dawson City, in the Klondike region, and by the identical route originally surveyed thirty years ago by the great Siberian traveler, George Kennan. |