Telegraph Cove

Telegraph Cove (48˚28'00" 123˚17'00" N of Cadboro Bay, SE side of Saanich Peninsula, NE of Victoria). Victoria’s first telegraph cable came ashore here in 1866, brought across Haro Str from San Juan I by the RN gunboat Forward, which had been hired by the Collins Overland Telegraph Co and especially equipped to lay the line. A later cable was laid through the cove in 1904 by the Pacific States Telephone Co, with one circuit going to Bellingham and one to Vancouver. In the early 1880s an...

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