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Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds
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Trans Canada telephone

Photographs of the system's microwave network on the West Coast. Upper left: roads had to be cut through mountains even above ground level. Lower left: Hedly, British Columbia Mountaintop blasted away to form a site. Upper right: so high that many of the sites are buried in snow. Lower right a: access roads couldn't be built at 2 sites, so aerial tramways were constructed. The Dog Mountain Tramway is one of the biggest in the world - more than 2 miles with a lift of 44 000 feet microwave in full operation July 1, 19--?
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