Author of the article: Beth Wilkins
Publishing date: Mar 02, 2021 • March 2, 2021 • 6 minute read • • IMG 0001 – The sign depicts the NAR (Northern Alberta Railways), telegraphs and poles, which held lines by which telegraphs were transmitted; then once telephone lines were “flung” on them, they served both telegraph and telephone transmission. As we learned, although the Peace Country was far from more populated areas, it received these technologies in advance of the larger ones. It didn’t happen without a great deal of planning and effort by the companies involved and the crews working on the projects overcoming all manner of impediments – weather, equipment and terrain among them. Photo by SUPPLIED
Telephone lines continued to ring true to the plan of Alberta Government Telephones to extend its operations north to Dixonville in 1946 and Battle River…
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