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The first Trans-Atlantic cable was landed at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland in 1866.
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This article, written by Janet Morris was published in Fall/Winter 2007 edition of Heritage magazine, The magazine of the Heritage Foundation of Canada.
Architecture and the Information Highway: The Hazel Hill Transatlantic Cable Telegraph Community
Most of the landmarks in the communications revoution involve technology, not bricks and mortar. There are some notable exceptions. Hazel Hill, two kilometres outside of Canso, Nova Scotia, ranks as one of the chief monuments to North America’s communications infrastructure.
Telegraphers’ Hall, originally operated by the Commercial Cable Company, was the first North American telegraph station to break the British monopoly on transatlantic telegrams. The first Hazel Hill cable relay station was a wooden building. Four years later, in 1888, a new and suitably impressive Telegraphers’ Hall, designed in a neoclassical architectural style, was constructed in brick with a solid granite foundation. upload/Heritage Magazine - Hazel Hill article .pdf