Invisible Empire: A History of the telecommunications industry in Canada, 1846-1956 ISBN: 9780773568440 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Telecommunication -- Canada -- History;
The Invisible Empire provides the first overview of Canadian telecommunications, from the laying of the first telegraph line between Toronto and Hamilton in 1846 to the separation between Nortel - then known as Northern Electric - and the American Bell System in 1956.