Canada
The Marconi Company has owned or operated Canadian coastal radio stations since 1902, either as trans-Atlantic radiotelegraph links or as marine radio stations. While eastern Canada's ship-to-shore coastal stations were government-owned after 1915, the Marconi Company had been paid to continue to operate the facilities. Canada's west coast had been served by government-operated stations since 1907; many stations in the Canadian Arctic were military operations.
The Canadian Marconi Company operated manufacturing facilities at Montreal, Quebec and in 1919 had established on an experimental basis the first commercial broadcast radio station, XWA. This operation would become CFCF (AM/FM/TV) and CFCX (shortwave); Marconi would be forced to sell the stations due to foreign-ownership restrictions imposed on Canadian broadcast stations in 1970. The manufacturing operation is now CMC Electronics.
Since 1954, the federal Department of Transport has operated former Marconi coastal stations in eastern Canada; most served the Great Lakes and the Atlantic coast:
- VAY Cape Hopes Advance, Ungava Bay (July 1, 1929 - )
- VBC Midland, Ontario (July 8, 1912 - )
- VBH Kingston, Ontario (January 9, 1914 - )
- VBK Trois-Rivières, Québec
- VCC Québec, Québec (1910 - )
- VCD Grosse Isle, Quebec(until 1927)
- VCI Heath Point, Anticosti Island (July 21, 1904 – 1921)
- VCO North Sydney, Nova Scotia (1907 - )
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