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 thparkth
   
Location: Bedford, NS
Gender: Male
nulla regula sine exceptione
 |  |  | Commercial Cable Company landing station (Canso)
< on 10/27/2007 9:07 PM >
|  | | | Some people might find this interesting... I hope to get a chance to visit the place.
(This picture is from the website linked below)
This was the landing station and international telegraph office for a cable to Ireland laid in 1874. The village of Hazel Hill basically grew up around this building, with the company providing leisure facilities, paid vacation, and other things unheard of in Victorian times to their highly-skilled imported telegraph operators and technicians... kind of like being a web developer in 1998 ;)
http://ns1763.ca/guysbco/commcable.html
Anyway the building is still there (it closed in the 60s), though derelict and in desperate need of some TLC. There is a society dedicated to trying to get it fixed up.
http://www.ccrsociety.ca/
I would very much like to see inside that building... I'm really interested in the old intercontinental telegraph cables. They changed the world. Everything else that has happened in telecommunications since then - telephone, internet, etc - is just details. This place is basically untouched since it was an active telegraph station.
The "Rehabilitation Society" sound like they want to turn it into a interpretation center. I hope they don't do that by ripping out whatever historical artefacts are in there and putting in school-group friendly plastic display boards of what it used to be like. I've seen too much of that in Scotland. Sometimes the same people who understand and appreciate the significance of a building will cheerfully throw out an old piece of equipment because it looks like junk...
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N250cc
 
Location: Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Commercial Cable Company landing station (Canso)
<Reply # 1 on 10/28/2007 6:09 PM >
| | | | Yeah, that would be real interesting to take a look inside.
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kowalski
  
| | Re: Commercial Cable Company landing station (Canso)
<Reply # 2 on 10/28/2007 6:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by thparkth
The "Rehabilitation Society" sound like they want to turn it into a interpretation center. I hope they don't do that by ripping out whatever historical artefacts are in there and putting in school-group friendly plastic display boards of what it used to be like. I've seen too much of that in Scotland. Sometimes the same people who understand and appreciate the significance of a building will cheerfully throw out an old piece of equipment because it looks like junk...
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If you care about the future of the building and what's inside of it, this is your chance right now to get involved with the Rehabilitation Society and influence the course of what's to come.
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thparkth
Location: Bedford, NS
Gender: Male
nulla regula sine exceptione
| | | Re: Commercial Cable Company landing station (Canso)
<Reply # 3 on 10/28/2007 7:25 PM >
| | | | Posted by kowalski
If you care about the future of the building and what's inside of it, this is your chance right now to get involved with the Rehabilitation Society and influence the course of what's to come.
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Practically, I can't help them in any way except perhaps with a donation. Canso is a long way from here. Do you know anything about the society or the current situation with the building?
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