The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
February 2, 1854
Telegraph Line To Buffalo.
The Hamilton & Buffalo Division of the Grand Trunk Telegraph Line
was yesterday completed and put in successful operation. At the
office of the company may be seen by the curious, that novelty, in
Canadian telegraphing at least, Morse’s Lightning Printing Press.
This section of the line will be worked throughout with a printing
instrument, which for expedition, accuracy and beauty, appears to
eclipse entirely every other system ever invented for telegraphing.
For it’s introduction into this country, the Company are indepted to
the enterprise of it’s former superintendent, Mr. W. D. Snow. The
completion of this section gives a total distance now working to the
Grand Trunk Company of 880 miles, while the completion of the Montreal
and Quebec section, by the same contractors on the 1st prov., will
make an aggregate of 1085 miles or the longest line under one company,
in America.- Hamilton Spectator.