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In 1903 Marconi founded Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada, which was renamed in 1925 as the Canadian Marconi Company. Camperdown was one of several coastal stations constructed by the company to provide radio communications with ships. Located at the entrance to the Halifax Harbour, from 1905-1926 it served primarily to forward messages collected from ships by stations at Sable Island and Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, as well as those directly from ships within wireless range of the station itself. These messages were transmitted by landline telegraph circuit to the Halifax Telegraph Office for local delivery or retransmission to subsequent destinations.

The station's first wireless ship-to-shore test was made on 19 June 1905, between the cableship MacKay-Bennett and Camperdown. From May 1907 a daily automated time signal was sent from the St. John Observatory to Camperdown, whereby it was relayed instantaneously to all ships within radio distance, the first such service in the world. While this relationship remained operational until 1949, by the early 1930s the Meteorological Service was no longer responsibility for disseminating the correct time, and the task was assumed by the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa.

Camperdown Station is also believed to be the recipient of the first radio broadcast of music heard in Nova Scotia. When the luxury steamer Hirondelle passed through Halifax, her owner, the Prince of Monaco, had a piano hooked up to a wireless transmitter and treated operators at Camperdown to four musical selections, including the Merry Widow Waltz, later signalling to enquire about the success of the experiment.

Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company Limited was incorporated in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 22 April 1910 to consolidate the telephone and telegraph services across the Maritimes. The company purchased the majority of shares from the Telephone Company of Prince Edward Island and bought out the Nova Scotia Telephone Company.

In 1998 the four primary telephone companies in Atlantic Canada—Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company, Island Telecom, NBTel and NewTel Communications—merged to form Aliant, which later became known as Bell Aliant.

Mason Chapman was a four-piece band formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1979. The original line up included Doris Mason (keyboards, vocals), Bruce Chapman (keyboards, vocals), Dave Skinner (drums, vocals), and Mike Andrusyk (bass, vocals). The band played exclusively throughout the Atlantic Provinces and presented a sound that relied heavily on keyboards and four-part vocal harmonies. Mason Chapman featured music from several genres – pop, jazz, R&B, swing, and contemporary.

The band recorded its debut self-titled album at Solar Audio Recording Studies in 1982. The album includes ten original compositions. It was engineered by Carl Falkenham and Keith Delong and produced by Glen Meisner. The album was released by M.C. Records (MC 1001). M.C. Records also released a 7 inch single (RCI 539-S1).

Guest musicians joining the band included John Hollis on sax, guitarist Georges Hebert, Roger Simard on percussion, Eugene Husaruk , Juan Fernandez, Denise Lupien, Luis Grinhauz on violins and Guy Fouquet on cello. String arrangements were done by Skip Beckwith.

After the album was released, Roger Arsenault joined the band on bass and vocals. The band continued to perform until 1984. In 2012, the band reunited for a series of concerts at Stayner's Wharf in Halifax, Montes in Dartmouth, and the Shore Club in Hubbards.

McCurdy Printing Co. was a Halifax printing firm operating from ca.1906 to 1999. It was established by John Archibald McCurdy and later taken over by his son William Hue McCurdy, who assumed the position of president. William McCurdy also established Petheric Press, one of the first small publishing companies in Nova Scotia, which specialized in Nova Scotia historical works and was active from 1967 to 1984.

McCurdy Printing saw a variety of owners after McCurdy sold the business in the late 1970s. It was first purchased by Doug McCallum and two other entrepreneurs who sold the business again in 1988. The company was then owned by Brunswick Capital Group Ltd. and the Annapolis Basin Group before Newfoundland Capital Corporation Ltd. acquired it in 1999. That same year, Newfoundland Capital merged McCurdy with Atlantic Nova Print to form Print Atlantic.