...tho part of the Government in securing from ocean to ocean complete control of tho telegraph system. It appears to me to follow that, as a question of...possessions to the west of the Pacific Ocean should bo connected by submarine cable with the Canadian line. Great Britain would then be brought into direct...

...connecting Lake Superior with Ottawa, the seat of Government, by telegraph. *******jf these connections are made, we shall have a complete overland telegraph...dependencies without passing through foreign countries." In his report on the progress of the Canadian Pacific Railway, dated 8th April, 1880, Sir Sandford...

...(then Chief Engineer of the Canadian Government Railways) remarked (1879) that "If these connections are made, we shall have a complete overland telegraph...the west of the Pacific Ocean should be connected by a submarine cable with the Canadian line. Great Britain will thus be brought into direct communication...

...imperial importance, the British possessions to the west of the Pacific Ocean should be connected by a submarine cable with the Canadian line. Great Britain...dependencies without passing through foreign countries." 2 Prior to that date, cable connection between the United Kingdom and the Australasian colonies had...

...completion of the overland telegraph from the Atlantic to the Pacific, suggested that "as a matter of imperial importance the British possessions to...dependencies without passing through foreign countries" (Mr Fleming to the Superintendent of the Telegraph and Signal Service, Ottawa, nth June 1879). In his...