Telegraphs British Columbia, Yukon and Alberta – Atlas of Canada 1st Edition by Natural Resources Canada

1906 Telegraph Lines Map of British Columbia, Yukon and Alberta

Before radio, a message from Dawson City to Victoria traveled on wire strung beside the rails. Drawn from the 1st Edition of the Atlas of Canada by Natural Resources Canada, this map plots that telegraph network as it stood at the turn of the century.

Most lines run alongside the railway routes, which is exactly how the system was built and maintained. Where two or three lines followed the same corridor into a well settled district, the cartographers drew only one, so the towns along a marked route were often served by more wire than the sheet suggests. Along the Pacific coast the map picks up the shore portions of several cable lines, including a couple of submarine runs. The Yukon sits in a magnified inset at the upper right.

Also shown:

• Provincial boundaries
• Major cities, rivers and large bodies of water
• Railway systems
• Part of the Dominion rectangular survey grid of sections, townships, ranges and meridians reaching from mid Manitoba into Alberta

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