Canada Yearbook - 1897

LAND AND CABLE TELEGRAPH LINES OWNED BY GOVERNMENT IN THE SEVERAL PROVINCES-ConiMinerf.
o
Location of Lines.
Points connected.
Land
Lines.
Cables.
Total.
Number
of
Offices.
Yearly
Average
Number of
sent.
11
Quarantine System:
< On Orleans Island
29i
i
24
i
n
Anticosti System :
Gaspe—L'Anse a Fougere
tt
223J
it
Anticosti—Long Point, Mingan...
it
Meat Cove (C. B.)— Magdalen Islands....
t 83
Ontario
t
North-west
it
British Columbia.
Pelee Island System :
Leamington—Point Pelee
Ashcroft—Barkerville
Victoria—Cape Beale
Nanaimo—Comox and Alberni.
*Knots changed into statute miles in total.
13
3i
28
12
12
6074
90J
2764
118
1104
62"
Miles.
4
• 2
2
Knots.
} m
1
1
j
44|
1 3164
2i"
55
} 1384
i
' 8|'
| 32f:
6074 i
90$ ;
276|,
118
1104:
62 :
Totals : ,. . 2,548J *238 2,786^ 155 42,500
7
10
9
7
15
2
8
7
8
1
3,400
500
500
500
4,200
250
2,000
250
2,500
500