Telecommunications
Down to the water
Business and stone
And fires!
Around Rue de lHôpital |
As far back as 1874, hundreds of wires led to the roof of the elegant Montréal Telegraph building, the heart of a vast telegraphic system. The Chambers Telegraph building, nearby, was built in 1900 to house the telecommunication services of Canadian Pacific.
![Federal Telephone](../images/13_p10a.jpg) Telegraph operators at work for the Federal Telephone Company in 1891, on Rue Saint-Sacrement.
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