1906 Telephone Lines Map of Ontario and Western Canada
In 1906, a telephone line in Canada usually followed a railway. This plate from the Atlas of Canada 1st Edition makes that relationship visible, tracing the early telephone network as solid grey lines that run alongside rail corridors across the country. The map is really five maps on one sheet, each segment magnified and bounded separately: Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon.
Shore line portions of the cable lines are marked, including crossings on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and inland waters in Alberta, central Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Major cities, counties, rivers, lakes, and railway systems are drawn in as context, with rail lines continuing past the border into part of the United States. Where several lines shared a route near larger cities and towns, the scale did not allow all of them to be shown.
Published by Natural Resources Canada and available through Map Shop on the following:
- Paper
- Laminated
- Mounted to foam core
- Framed in black molding
- Framed in walnut molding

