Overland Telegraph - Telkwa, BC
N 54° 40.035 W 126° 59.736
9U E 629268 N 6059609
This marker about the Overland Telegraph is located along the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway 16 near Telkwa, British Columbia.
Waymark Code: WMHRBW
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 08/08/2013
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Overland Telegraph
Perry Collins, an American, envisioned a land route to link America and Asia by telegraph. All attempts to lay a cable across the Atlantic had failed.
Western Union had completed 800 miles northerly from New Westminster in 1865-66, when the ocean cable was successfull. The overland project was abandoned but the line to Cariboo remained.
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