Cable Building - Bay Roberts

HSMBC Plaque Location

Bay Roberts

Owner/Administrator

 

Date Designated:  2008

Plaque Status: Not Plaqued

Reason for Designation

An important keystone in transatlantic communications and the development of the Western Union Telegraph Company network

Other Info

 

 

 

 Plaque Text

 

CABLE BUILDING AT BAY ROBERTS

 The Cable Building is a strong corporate symbol of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which dominated the transatlantic telegraph industry from 1912 to the 1960s. A pivotal relay point in a vast network, this building introduced to Newfoundland a new type of telegraph station that was more functional and highly specialized in its layout than its predecessors. Protected during both world wars and the Cold War, this leading example of telegraph technologies played a vital part in these conflicts. Western Union—and the building it erected here—had a large impact on the social and economic life of this community.

 

Ce bâtiment est un puissant emblème de la Western Union Telegraph Company, leader de l’industrie de la télégraphie transatlantique de 1912 aux années 1960. Poste de retransmission stratégique au sein d’un vaste réseau, il introduisit sur l’île un type de station télégraphique hautement spécialisée et plus fonctionnelle que les modèles précédents. Protégée pendant les deux guerres mondiales et la guerre froide, cette figure de proue des technologies télégraphiques joua un rôle clé lors de ces conflits. La Western Union et son édifice ont eu une grande influence socio-économique sur la vie de la communaut

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