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 CNHE - First Submarine Telegraph Cable - Cape Traverse, PEI Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 46° 14.503 W 063° 39.434
20T E 449331 N 5121114
In a shady spot under a spruce tree, mounted on a low concrete plinth is this plaque, relating the story of the laying of the first substantial submarine cable in America, from nearby Carlton Head, PEI to Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick.
Waymark Code: WMPMTY
Location: Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date Posted: 09/22/2015
Views: 7
The plaque memorializing the laying of the cable is mounted along Highway 10 at Cape Traverse, about 15 metres south of an odd shaped kiosk on the south side of the highway, opposite the Cape Traverse United Church. In the kiosk is another CNHS plaque, relating the story of the Island's Ice Boat Service, which ran across the Northumberland Strait between New Brunswick and the Island from 1827 until 1917.
In 1851 Frederick N. Gisborne, an English engineer, with backing from the Newfoundland legislature, founded the Newfoundland Telegraph Company to promote the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. Determined to demonstrate the practicality of the techniques he espoused, he acquired American financial backing, purchased a cable in England and, in the autumn of 1852, laid it between Carleton Head, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick. Excluding from consideration an earlier cable across the Hudson River, this was the first substantial submarine cable in America.
From the CNHS Plaque
Classification: National Historic Event
Province or Territory: Prince Edward Island
Location - City name/Town name: Cape Traverse
Link to Parks Canada entry (must be on www.pc.gc.ca): [Web Link]
Link to HistoricPlaces.ca: Not listed
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