Les Télécommunications à Montréal entre 1846 et 1946

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Les Télécommunications à Montréal entre 1846 et 1946
Abstract
The author provides the chronology, between 1846 and 1946, of the first events that made Montreal the hub of national and international telecommunications in Canada. In 1846, Montreal businessman Luther H. Holton (1817-1880) proposed that the Montreal Board of Trade establish a telegraph company linking Montreal to Toronto. Funds were raised and on March 6, 1847, O.S. Wood was appointed superintendent of the company, and on 28 July of the same year, a charter officially recognized the existence of the Montreal Telegraph Company (MTC). Andrew Shaw was elected president and James Dakers, secretary. A few months later, the company established a new link between Montreal and Quebec City, so that before the end of 1847, MTC had 900 kilometres of lines, 9 branches and had already transmitted or received more than 33,000 messages. When Guglielmo Marconi changed the world of telecommunications in 1901 with the transmission of wireless messages, he opened, he founded the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada Montreal in 1903. This was Marconi's fourth subsidiary after those in New York, Paris, and Berlin. After the First World War, the new niche of radio became one of the most successful commercial enterprises. The use of radiotelephony - the common use of commercial radio did not yet exist - was born in September 1918 in Montreal. The first station, whose call sign was XWA, began broadcasting on certain evenings of the week. In December 1919, XWA changed its name to CFCF and is considered the first commercial radio station in the world.
Publication
Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine / Scientia Canadensis: revue canadienne d'histoire des sciences, des techniques et de la médecine
Volume
Vol. 16
Issue
no. 1
Pages
5-24
Date
1992
Language
fr
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Canuel, Alain. “Les Télécommunications à Montréal entre 1846 et 1946.” Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine / Scientia Canadensis: revue canadienne d’histoire des sciences, des techniques et de la médecine Vol. 16, no. 1 (1992): 5–24. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/scientia/1992-v16-n1-scientia3230/800340ar.pdf.
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