INTERESTING FACTS
In 1866 the cost for sending a message across the Atlantic was $100.00 for the first 20 words or less and $5.00 per word for each word thereafter. Imagine trying to send an entire newspaper overseas at that cost. The cost would be excessive at today’s standards.
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The newly refurbished Hazel Hill Commercial Cable site will be a signature project for Guysborough, Nova Scotia and Canada. It will provide; national and regional benefits and attention, direct benefits to the people of the area, and the potential to provide an opportunity for building tenants to reduce labour costs through a shared employee arrangement.
The now abandoned and deteriorating Commercial Cable building will become once again a centre-piece of the community with a thriving and vibrant future. Once revitalized, it will become a self-sustaining community asset. A National Historic Site designation under the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada would reflect the building, the community, and the province’s historic role in global communications.
The building will house a set of nationally significant programs including the Trans-Atlantic Cable Interpretation Centre; and potentially, a marine interpretation & education centre reflecting the community’s historic role in fisheries and featuring the Marine Gully Protected Area and the Eastern Scotia Shelf Integrated Management Initiative (ESSIM) managed by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
As the number one priority in the “Sustainable Tourism Plan for Eastern Guysborough” and fitting with the 2006 Nova Scotia Tourism Plan’s “destination tourism” focus, the interpretation centres’ activities will generate increased tourism in the locale providing demand for downstream services and generating employment. The site will also provide space for appropriate commercial services and potentially for offices for the increasingly active off-shore energy sector, an excellent fit with the Eastern Shore Sustainable Integrated Management (ESSIM).