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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.

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.

Andrew Madden, MD, was born in Dromore, County Down, Ireland, on 2 February 1782, the son of Edward Madden and Rose Brannigan. He came late to medicine, graduating at the age of thirty-five with his diploma as surgeon and physician from Glasgow University in 1817. Later that year, he sailed from Glasgow for Quebec, serving as the ship's surgeon and responsible for some 300 passengers. While passing through the Gut of Canso the ship was forced to land in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where the passengers were put ashore.

According to tradition, Madden was so taken with the Strait or Gut of Canso that he never took up his land grant in Quebec, but returned and settled at Arichat, where he practiced served as the province's health officer for 40 years. He died 30 January 1858 and was buried on his 76th birthday. He was married to Ann Jackman, born in Halifax ca. 1798 and died in Arichat, Nova Scotia, on 23 March 1868.

Herbert Farquhar MacRae was Principal of Nova Scotia School of Agriculture from 1972-1989 and the namesake of Dalhousie's Agricultural Campus library. Born on 30 March 1926 in Middle River, Nova Scotia, he graduated from the Nova Scotia Teachers College in 1948, earning a Superior First-Class Teaching License. He taught high school for five years and then studied at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, graduating at the top of his class and receiving a scholarship at Macdonald College, McGill University. He earned his BSc in 1950, MSc in 1956, and his DPhil in Agricultural Chemistry in 1960. MacRae worked for two years with the Food and Drug Directorate, Health and Welfare Canada, before returning to Macdonald College to teach for twelve years, ending up as professor and chair of the Department of Animal Science.

In 1972 he returned to Nova Scotia as Principal of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, where he remained for the next 17 years, providing leadership to the agri-food industry in numerous capacities, including as a founding member and later Chairman of the Canadian Agricultural Research Council (CARC). He also served as President of the Association of Faculties of Agriculture in Canada; Chairman of the Atlantic Provinces Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee; Chairman of the Association of Deans of the Faculties of Agriculture in Canada; and Executive Director, Confederation of Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. MacRae received an Honorary Doctorate from McGill in 1987, was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural Institute of Canada in 1988, and was named to the Order of Canada in 1992. On his retirement from NSAC in 1989, the College library was renamed in his honour. He died in 2002 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

Murdock Maxwell MacOdrum was born in 1901 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He graduated with his BA from Dalhousie University in 1923, then went to McGill, where he wrote his Master's thesis on the survival of English and Scottish popular ballads in Nova Scotia. In 1925 he participated in a teacher’s exchange to Glasgow, where he received his DPhil. He continued his studies at Harvard and was later appointed lecturer at the University of Kings College, Dalhousie, and at Queen’s University. In 1935 he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in Sydney, Nova Scotia, where he ministered for four years.

In 1944, after a stint at the Dominion Coal and Steel Company in Sydney, MacOdrum moved to Ottawa to sell war bonds. He was recruited by Carleton College's founder and president, Henry Marshall Tory, to be his executive assistant and eventual successor. MacOdrum became the college's president in 1947, and within a few years had successfully lobbied the Ontario government to award the college a charter and degree-granting powers. He died in 1955.