1906 Telegraph Lines Map of Ontario and Quebec
Before the telephone reached rural Canada, news moved by wire, and the wire followed the rails. Drawn from the 1st Edition of the Atlas of Canada and published by Natural Resources Canada, this 1906 map traces the telegraph network across Ontario and western Quebec.
The cartography carries an important convention: where two or more lines shared a single route, only one line is drawn. In well settled districts like Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec, a single indicated route may actually represent two or three separate telegraph lines serving the principal towns along the way. Most of those routes run alongside the railway systems, which the map also shows, along with the shore portions of cable lines, major cities, county boundaries, rivers, and the larger bodies of water.
Map Shop prints it on premium paper with finishing options including laminated, foam core mounted, railed, and framed in black or walnut molding. A sharp piece for communications and railway historians, archivists, and history teachers.

