Heart's Content Cable Station is a former cable landing station located in Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador. It served as the western terminus of the first permanent trans-oceanic submarine
Heart's Content Cable Station
The Heart's Content Cable Station, with the 1876 original building on the left (red) and 1918 extension on the right (white)
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The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed on 6 November 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the first such telecommunications link.
Heart's Content Cable Station
…working at the Heart's Content station to send and receive these messages. While the cable station was originally established in Heart's Content by the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, it was later taken over by the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1912. When the Anglo-American Telegraph Company owned the station, they commission…
Great Eastern iron sailing steam ship, used to lay the transatlantic telegraph cable.
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company works, at Enderbys Wharf.