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Trans-Canada Microwave System, 1958
The Canadian National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science joins IEEE Canada, the Engineering Institute of Canada, Bell Canada, TELUS, and SaskTel in recognizing completion of the Trans-Canada Microwave System in 1958 as one of the greatest engineering accomplishments in Canadian history.
Photo Gallery - All photos courtesy of the Bell Historical Collection
Trans-Canada TD-2 radio system television and telephone network route
A-17988-S - A snow-covered TD-2 tower near Creston, B.C., 1959.
A-23731 In Ottawa, Bob MacDonald (left) adjusts the equipment which links the microwave system to long distance and television facilities, 1953.
A-13018 Microwave radio relay tower on top of the Adelaide-Elgin building, Toronto, 1953.
A-23727 Construction crew, Olive, Ont., 1956.
A-14859-S - Canada’s first coast-to-coast closed circuit press conference with Thomas Eadie, President of Bell Canada, at right, June 18, 1958.