Commercial Cable Rehabilitation Society - Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada
INTERESTING FACTS
The Atlantic Telegraph Company and the London Telegraph Company had a 50 year monopoly through a charter granted by the Newfoundland legislature. The two companies merged and operated as the Anglo-American Telegraph Company. They could charge what they wanted and they did.
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“The two world’s meet here, join hands and are one. Like the waves of the ocean the thoughts of the world are never at rest.”
The Morning Herald describes the Hazel Hill Cable Station
The Commercial Cable Station at Hazel Hill, the "Canso Station" (CS), was an impressive operation on the world communications stage. In its heyday, Commercial Cable transmitted over 3,000 messages every day with a guarantee that messages between New York and London would be delivered within one minute.
It has been almost 50 years since the closure of the Hazel Hill Cable Station. The grand building that was once the cornerstone of communications history lies in wait….time has been harsh on its structure.
The conservation and renovation of this architecturally unique building and the Trans-Atlantic cable history that it housed requires immediate attention or it will be lost forever. The Commercial Cable Rehabilitation Society’s mission is “to develop the Commercial Cable site at Hazel Hill as a modern centre of historic interpretation, marine knowledge, learning and community growth, in keeping with the significance of Commercial Cable’s role in the dissemination of world knowledge in its heyday”. We invite you to help make our mission possible!