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![]() "Canadian Telegraphic Overview" Announced 13 March 1901The Canadian Telegraphic network began fifty-four years [see Note below] ago when a line was established between Quebec and Toronto. The mileage of Canadian telegraphs today is something just over 35,057 miles: 18,286 miles of which are controlled by the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company, 8,886 miles by the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Railway Company [sic], 4,973 miles by the Dominion Government Telegraph, and 2,912 miles by the Western Union Telegraph Company operating in the Maritime Provinces. It is calculated that this represents some 86,000 miles of wire, and more than 2,700 telegraph offices. With the exception of the Yukon telegraphs and the extension on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River towards Belle Isle, the lines included in the Canadian Government Telegraph Service were almost all established and equipped between the years 1880 and 1882. Three years ago, contracts were given for the supply of poles and for construction of the land line to connect with the proposed cable to Belle Isle off the Labrador coastline.
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