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Submarine cable circuit no. 2 in the mainland - Vancouver Island interconnection
The item is a workprint of an industrial film from 1958. It shows the laying of twin undersea cables from Tsawwassen Beach to Galiano Island and Parker Island to Saltspring Island by Her Majesty's Telegraphic Ship "Monarch", the world's largest cable-laying vessel.
Workprint missing as of 2003.
The item is a workprint of an industrial film from 1956. It is the first film of a three-part engineering record of the manufacture and laying of an undersea power cable from the mainland to Vancouver Island. Part one shows surveys, preparations, construction of shore installations and the hanging of overland and overwater cables.
The item is a workprint of an industrial film made in 1956. It is the third film of a three-part engineering record of the manufacture and laying of an undersea power cable from the mainland to Vancouver Island. Part three shows the laying of five cables from Saltspring Island to Parker Island (3 miles) and from Tsawwassen Beach to Galiano (14 miles) by the cable-laying ship "Ocean Layer". It also shows shore operations and connections. The cable became operational on 25 September 1956.