1906 Telephone Lines Map of the Maritime Provinces and Quebec
By 1906 the telephone had stopped being a curiosity and started becoming infrastructure, and this sheet from the 1st Edition of the Atlas of Canada is the record of that moment in the east. Published by Natural Resources Canada, this map traces the network as it stood, with line paths and end nodes drawn as thick grey and purple strokes across the region.
The cartographers were honest about their limits. At this scale, every line clustered around the larger cities and towns could not be shown, so where several circuits followed the same route, only one line is indicated. The map also picks up the shore end portions of cable lines along Canada’s Atlantic coast, and shows how much of the telephone network simply followed the railways, including rail lines running past the border into part of the United States.
Underneath it all sits the base geography: major cities, county boundaries, rivers, and major bodies of water. A strong wall piece for telecom and rail history enthusiasts, university libraries, and archive collections.
Map Shop offers it on paper, laminated, mounted to foam core, railed, or framed in black or walnut molding.

