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Article Fifty-Five - Announced: 31 August 1901
Belle Island Cable Completed


	The Government of Canada through their telegraph company the Dominion 
	Government Telegraphs, has been been extended to Chateau Bay through the
	Straits of Belle Island.  Telegraph stations have been constructed at:
	Pointe du Maurier, Harington, Mutton Bay, St Augustine, Bonne Esperance,
	Blanc Sablon, Red Bay, and terminating at Chateau Bay. From Chateau Bay, a
	cable will be laid to Belle Island and a telegraph and costal signal station
	constructed.  The Government intends to use the new Marconi wireless system
	between these points as well.  The completion of this circuit will be of great
	assistance to the shipping lanes using the Straits.

	[NOTE: In 1847, the British North American Telegraph Company tried a similar
	telegraphic setup but along the St Lawrence from Gaspe. Ships were to report
	to the office and the telegraph office would let ports-of-call know of their
	pending arrival. However, the telegraph was new and untried and captains were
	skeptical, so its failure was predicatble. The Dominion Telegraph also tried to
	maintain such a service but by 1866, the company was absorbed and the idea
	left forgotten until the above time ... some of this aspect is covered in
	Canadian Railway Telegraph History as well.]

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