Telegraph Passage
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Telegraph Passage, which appears as Telegraph Pass on this 1865 map, is located near the Skeena River.1 The pass was named in 1865 in honour of the Collins Overland Telegraph to Asia that was supposed to be built in the area; however, due to the effectiveness of the trans-Atlantic cable, the project was deserted.2
  • 1. G. P. V. Akrigg and H. B. Akrigg, British Columbia Place Names (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997), 264.
  • 2. Ibid.
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    Skeena River

    The Colonial Despatches Team. Telegraph Passage. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/telegraph_passage.html.

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