What the records say
- When
- 28 Jun 1894
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 45.42° N, 75.69° W
- Description
- A Colonial Conference, held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, resolves to lay a telegraph cable between Canada and Australia.
Placed at the town its text puts it in, Ottawa.
1894 Colonial Conference
The 1894 Colonial Conference was called by the government of Canada to continue discussion begun at the 1887 Colonial Conference on a proposal to lay a telegraph cable at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to create a communications link between Canada and Australasia and, by extension, to the rest of the British Empire as part of what became referred to as the All Red Line network of cables throughout the Empire.
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