Telegraph in Western Canada, 1883

Introduced in Eastern Canada in 1846, the telegraph arrived in the West in the early 1880s. The map shows that cartography very soon reflected the extent of development in Canada.

Catalogue entry:
Canada. Dept. of Public Works.
Dominion of Canada Telegraph & Signal Service. Map no. 3 (West-central section) / Sir Hector L. Langevin, Minister of Public Works ; projected by F.N. Gisborne ; drawn by Gust. Smith. — Scale [ca. 1:1 300 000]. — Montreal : G.E. Desbarats & Co., 1883. — 1 map : col. ; 86 x 120 cm, on sheet 97 x 130 cm. —

Ref. Nos.: NMC 013190-1, 013190-2