Quebec and Maritime Provinces Telegraph Map (1906, Atlas of Canada, 1st Edition)
In 1906, a message from Montreal to a fishing village on the Gulf of St. Lawrence traveled on wire strung beside railway track. This map from the 1st Edition (1906) of the Atlas of Canada plots that network: the lines, the towns they reached, and the railways most of them followed.
Published by Natural Resources Canada, the sheet traces underwater cable routes and destinations, including the shore portions of each cable line and the Marconi wireless stations along Canada’s Atlantic coast, magnified in a corner inset at lower left. Where several lines shared a single route, only one is drawn, so the busiest corridors through Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia carried more capacity than the map suggests. Counties, major cities, rivers, major bodies of water and the full railway system fill in the base geography.
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- Underwater cable routes and shore portions
- Marconi wireless stations with Atlantic coast inset
- Full railway system and base geography
- Counties, major cities, rivers, and major bodies of water

