☛Grand Trunk Telegraph February 2, 1854
Completion of the Grand Trunk Telegraph line to Buffalo
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
February 2, 1854
Completion of the Grand Trunk Telegraph Line in Buffalo.
The Hamilton & Buffalo division of The Grand Trunk Telegraph Line was yesterday completed and put in successful operation. At the other end the company may be seen by the curious, that novelty, in Canadian telegraphing at least
H,,,, lightining 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 innvented 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 province, will make an aggregate of 1085 miles, or the longest line under one company in America – Hamilton
Spectator.
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