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Article Eighty-Eight
Announced 15 November 1910
A new proposal has been offered by the Dominion Government of Canada.  Consideration is
now being made towards a government-owned undersea telegraph-telephone cable between Canada
and the mother country, Great Britain.  The original route, surveryed by Canadian and
Quebec-born FN Gisbourn, was first suggested in 1860.  The cable is to run from Glasgow,
Scotland to Faros Island, thence to Greenland and thence again to Hamilton Inlet,
Labrador, Canada [sic].  The estimated cost is $4,250,000, which, it is figured, would
permit a charge of nine cents a word for ordinary and five cents a word for Press messages.

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