Communications Maps - Canada
Just found an interesting series of Communications maps in the Atlas of Canada. This series includes maps of the telegraph, telephone, television, radio and telecommunications which includes satellites in Canada. The Telecom map was released in 1984! Wonder how different the infrastructure is now?
I am surprised at what is on this map. Just check out the legend below. I keep forgetting that it takes a long time to build an infrastructures and for the idea of an infrastructure to become sorta mainstream. When this map came out I was not thinking of communication infrastructures, no one I knew had a personal computer, silicon valley north was in its very early days of development and I knew a bunch of young engineers fresh out of school working in some of those companies. For some this infrastructure must have been mainstream between and among an interesting group of communications pioneers as here is a map that shows early fiber optic cable deployment.
