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Dominion government telegraph service, 1907

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Dominion government telegraph service, 1907
	Year of construction	Miles of lines, land lines	Miles of lines, cables¹	Offices	Messages sent
	number
Newfoundland
Port au Basque to Cape Ray	1883	14.00	-	2	-
Nova Scotia
North Sydney to Meat Cove (with loops)	1880 to 1902	167.25	-	18²	9,776²
Across Bras d'Or Channel	1880	-	0.50	*	*
Across St. Anns Harbour	1887	-	0.25	*	*
Across Ingonish Harbour	1887	-	0.25	*	*
Big Bras d'Or to Kempt Head	1904	20.00	-	3	*
Meat Cove to St. Pauls Island	1890	-	20.00	1	*
On St. Pauls Island	1890	3.00	-	*	*
Mabou to Meat Cove	1887 to 1900	109.00	-	9	*
Barrington to Cape Sable	1883	16.00		leased	*
Across Bear Point Channel	1883	-	1.50	leased	*
Across Lighthouse Channel	1883	-	0.25	leased	*
Mabou to Port Hawkesbury	1903	41.75	-	16²	*
Port Hawkesbury to St. Peters	1903	32.00	-	*	*
St. Peters to Main-à-Dieu	1904	84.25	-	*	*
Main-à-Dieu to Scatarie	1902	-	1.75	*	*
On Scatarie Island	1904	7.25	-	*	*
Gabarous to North Sydney	1904	35.50	-	*	*
Little Bras d'Or to Kempt Head	1905	36.00	-	13²	*
North Sydney to Eskasoni	1905	37.50	-	*	*
New Brunswick
Chatham to Escuminac	1885	42.00	-	6	752
Bay of Fundy system
Eastport to Campobello	1880	-	1.75	10²	2,468²
On mainland Eastport	1880	0.50	-	*	*
On Campobello Island	1880	7.50	-	*	*
Campobello to Grand Manan	1880	-	7.25	*	*
On Grand Manan Island	1880	25.25	-	*	*
Grand Manan to Cheneys Island	1890	-	0.50	*	*
On Cheneys Island	1890	0.75	-	*	*
Cheneys island to Whitehead Island	1890	-	0.75	*	*
Partridge Island to Fort Dufferin	1900	-	0.75	-	-
Quebec
Bay St. Paul to Chicoutimi	1881 to 1904	98.00	-	6	2,000²
St. Alexis to St. Catharines Bay	1904	78.00	-	5	*
Murray Bay to S. Agnes	1904	14.50	-	2	*
Bay St. Paul to Petit River	1904	13.00	-	1	*
Chicoutimi to St. Charles	1903	37.00	-	10²	15,268²
St. Anne to Lac Claire	1903	15.00	-	*	*
St. Anne to St. Fulgence	1903	9.00	-	*	*
St. Fulgence to Sacré Coeur	1905	57.50	-	4	*
Murray Bay to St. Catharines Bay (2nd wire)	1904	44.75	-	-	*
St. Alexis to Chicoutimi (2nd wire)	1905	14.50	-	-	*
North Shore line
Murray Bay to Chateau Bay	1881 to 1901	1,028.50	-	66²	*
Across Saguenay River	1883	-	1.25	*	*
Bersimis to Manicouagan	1883	-	12.00	*	*
Manicouagan to Godbout	1883	-	26.00	*	*
Chateau Bay to Belle Isle	1901	-	22.25	*	*
Bersimis to Godbout (alternative line)	1904 to 1905	80.00	-	-	*
Quarantine system
Quebec to L'Ange Gardien	1885	13.00	-	8²	1,888²
L'Ange Gardien to Orleans Island	1885	-	0.75	*	*
On Orleans Island	1885	29.25	-	*	*
Orleans Island to Isle Reaux	1889	-	2.00	*	*
On Isle Reaux	1889	2.50	-	*	*
Isle Reaux to Grosse Isle	1889	-	2.00	*	*
On Grosse Isle (all told)	1885 to 1894	3.25	-	*	*
St. Jean to St. Famille (loop)	1904	5.50	-	1	*
St. Francois to Baie St. Paul	1906	-	30.00	-	*
Crane island to Montmagny	1905	-	3.50	-	*
Anticosti system
Gaspé to L'Anse à Fougère	1881	28.00	-	9²	788²
L'Anse à Fougère to Anticosti	1881	-	44.25	*	*
On Anticosti Island	1881to 1890	223.25	-	*	*
Anticosti to Long point, Mingan	1890	-	21.00	*	*
Magdalen Island system
Meat Cove, C.B. to Magdalen Islands	1880	-	55.00	13²	2,201²
On Magdalen Islands	1881to 1902	83.50	0.50	*	*
Grosse Isle to Bryon Island	1902	-	11.00	*	*
Bryon Island to Anticosti	1902	-	93.00	*	*
On Bryon Island (loop)	1903	1.00	-	*	*
House Harbour to Pointe Basse (loop)	1902	4.00	-	*	*
Pointe Basse to South Beach (loop)	1905	3.00	-	*	*
Ontario
Pelee Island system
Leamington to Point Pelee	1889	12.00	-	10²	1,217²
Leamington dock to Pelee Island	1901	-	17.00	*	*
On Pelee Island	1889 to 1900	13.50	-	*	*
Northwest Provinces
Qu'Appelle to Edmonton	1883	625.00	-	16	17,782²
Moosejaw to Wood Mountain	1885	90.50	-	2	*
Wood Mountain to Willow Bunch	1904	38.00	-	5²	*
Edmonton to lndian agency and Stony Plain	1904	24.00	-	*	*
Edmonton to Athabaska Landing	1904	98.00	-	*	*
Duck Lake to Batoche	1902	9.00	-	3²	*
Duck Lake to Indian agency	1902	3.50	-	*	*
Edmonton to St. Albert	1887	9.00	-	3²	*
St. Albert to Qui Barre and Alexandria	1902	27.00	-	*	*
Lloydminister (loop) near Pitt	1904	22.00	-	1	*
Victoria to Andrew and Whitford	1904 to 1905	11.50	-	2	*
Qu'Appelle to Lipton (loop)	1906	11.00	-	1	-
British Columbia
Victoria to Cape Beale	1891	118.00	-	6	1,602
Nanaimo to Comox	1893	81.00	-	10	9,438²
Parksville to Alberni	1895	29.50	-	2²	*
Alberni to Cape Beale	1899	57.00	-	*	*
Alberni to Clayoquot	1902	96.75	-	9	913
Kamloops to Lower Nicola	1899	67.00	-	32²	1,050
Lower Nicola to Penticton	1905	168.00	-	*	4,500
Vernon to Kilowna	1905	35.00	-	*	750
Golden to Windermere	1901 to 1902	92.00	-	4	1,566
Kilowna to Penticton	1906	45.00	1.50	-	-
Duncan station to Salt Spring Island and extension	1902 to 1904	24.00	0.75	5	372
Yukon
Ashcroft to Dawson and Boundary	1899 to 1901	1,845.00	-	-	-
Hazleton to Port Simpson and Aberdeen	1901 to 1902	202.50	-	68²	31,856²
Tagish to Cariboo Crossing	1901	18.00	-	*	*
150 Mile station to Quesnelle forks	1902	64.00	-	*	*
Ashcroft to Lillooet	1896	62.00	-	*	*
Quesnelle to Barkerville	1887	61.00	-	*	*
Ashcroft to Quesnelle (local wire)	1878 to 1887	215.00	-	-	-
Total to March 31, 1907	-	6,840.25	379.25	382	104,187
* Data are included with the data in the previous category.
1. Knots.
2. Includes data for categories below that marked with an asterik (*) until another cell with data is present in the column.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book 1907.