Newfoundland
The first Marconi transatlantic message was received in 1901 at Signal Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland. Subsequent efforts at trans-Atlantic communications would use Cape Breton, Nova Scotia as a Canadian terminus due to the Anglo-American Telegraph Company's entrenched monopoly in the Dominion of Newfoundland. Messages for ships at sea would continue to be handled in Newfoundland, due to its strategic location as point of first contact in the east. As of 1915, the following coastal stations were operational in Newfoundland to connect the island to otherwise-isolated outports in Labrador and to handle vital ship-to-shore communication:
- VCE Cape Race (1904–1966, originally CE or MCE)
- VCM Belle Island
- VCR Cape Ray
- VOA Battle Harbour, Labrador
- VOB Venison Island
- VOC American Tickle
- VOD Domino
- VOE Grady
- VOF Smokey Tickle
- VOG Holton
- VOH Cape Harrison
- VOI Makkovik
- VOJ Fogo (1912–1933)
- VOJH Corner Brook (1940–1974)
- VON Cabot Tower/Signal Hill, St. John's (until 1960)
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