Hazel Hill is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia in the Municipality of the District of Guysborough in Guysborough County.[1]
Hazel Hill | |
|---|---|
Community | |
 Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Station | |
  Hazel Hill Hazel Hill in Nova Scotia | |
| Coordinates: 45°19′28″N 61°1′51″W / 45.32444°N 61.03083°W |
Engineers and skilled workers were brought from England and a planned white-collar community was built, including stylish homes, a tennis court, a cricket field and a curling rink.
Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable Station edit
Hazel Hill was chosen by the Commercial Cable Company in 1888 as the site for a trans-Atlantic cable station as it is the closest point of land in mainland North America to Europe.[2][3] The station was housed in an imposing two-and-a-half storey brick and granite structure.[4] The Hazel Hill trans-Atlantic cable station received a distress signal from the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, news concerning the end of World War I or Treaty of Versailles, and the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It ceased operation in 1962 and due to its poor condition was set to be demolished in 2017.[5][6]
References edit
- ^ "Hazel Hill". Geographical Names Board of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ Belfort, Roland. "At an Atlantic Cable Station (1895)". History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications. Atlantic Cable.
- ^ "Canso & Hazel Hill - The Cable Story in Canso". History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications. Atlantic Cable.
- ^ "Commercial Cable Building". Canada's Historic Places. Parks Canada. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "Guysborough County's abandoned commercial cable station to be demolished". CTV News Atlantic. Bell Media. July 14, 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "Photographs of Commercial Cable Company Telegraph Office". Retrieved 14 July 2017.
External links edit
Media related to Hazel Hill, Nova Scotia at Wikimedia Commons
 | This Guysborough County, Nova Scotia location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |