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19 December 1846 marked the inauguration of the telegraph in Canada. This major development in communications was pioneered by the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company whose line then being built between Toronto and Queenston carried the first message, from the mayor of Toronto to his Hamilton counterpart.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
It was in late January that vandals so badly scratched out the face of Mackenzie King on an awareness panel by the former prime minister’s final resting place in Toronto that a federal agency decided the panel had to be replaced. For more than two decades, the commemorative panel didn’t receive a revamp, just like […]
The graves of former prime ministers are set to be updated with new commemorative plaques that spell out how the leaders are remembered.