1906 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Telegraph Map
Drawn from the 1st Edition Atlas of Canada, this 1906 map plots the telegraph network across three provinces just after Saskatchewan and Alberta joined Confederation.
The cartography carries a useful caveat from the original compilers: where two or more lines followed the same route, only one is drawn. Well settled districts along the mapped corridors were often served by two or three separate lines reaching the principal towns. Most of those routes shadow the railways, which are printed alongside them, together with major cities, counties, rivers, and the large lakes of the region.
The sheet also lays out the rectangular survey system that opened prairie land to settlement, with sections, townships, ranges, and meridians gridded from mid Manitoba west into Alberta. That grid still governs rural land description today.
Published by Natural Resources Canada. Map Shop offers it on paper, laminated, mounted to foam core, or framed in black or walnut molding for a study, library, or archive wall.

