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Archival description
Employee Records
CA BI MG 14.113-MG 14.113 C · Series · 1923 - 1950
Part of Western Union Telegraph Company - North Sydney Branch fonds

Series consists of a 1923 list of Western Union employees at the North Sydney branch as well as a series of files related to past Western Union employees who donated materials to the North Sydney Historical Society. Individuals represented are George Baggett, Isabel Cameron, and M.J. Walsh. A file containing a menu and photograph from the 1907 annual Christmas party is also included.

General History
CA BI MG 14.113-MG 14.113 A-MG 14.113 A.1 · File · 1955 - 2003
Part of Western Union Telegraph Company - North Sydney Branch fonds

File consists of a variety of publications and articles about the history of submarine and transatlantic communications. As well, papers by Mary Lynch and M.J. MacLeod document the history of the North Sydney Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company. Early history of the telegraph in Nova Scotia and a series of newspaper clippings are also included.

Photographs
CA BI MG 14.113-MG 14.113 D · Series · 1904 - 1955
Part of Western Union Telegraph Company - North Sydney Branch fonds

Series consists of photographs related to the process of laying underwater cable via the Western Union Cable ship Lord Kelvin, and also images of the North Sydney Western Union office and its staff. Many of the images include names listed on the back of the photograph.

CA BI MG 14.113-MG 14.113 B · Series · 1926-1941
Part of Western Union Telegraph Company - North Sydney Branch fonds

Series consists of reports and technical drawings outlining specifications for the installation and operation of portable carrier terminals and for shaping signals with signal-shaping amplifiers on non-loaded submarine cables.

The series also contains a miscellaneous folder of notes, drawings and blueprints related to signal frequency and office equipment wiring.

Telegrams
CA BI MG 14.113-MG 14.113 A-MG 14.113 A.2 · File · 1917 - 1972
Part of Western Union Telegraph Company - North Sydney Branch fonds

File contains examples of telegraph messages as well as a blank Western Union copy booklet with instructions for customers. One envelope of ticker tape includes the following description: "States breaking relations with Germany - Sunday February 4th 1917". A second envelope contains unidentified undulator tape. An explanation of Morse Code also included in file.

CA BI MG 14.113 · Fonds · 1876 - 1962

Fonds consists of records documenting the history and operations of the North Sydney Western Union Telegraph Company. Records include an early inventory of the property from 1876, employee listings and collections, telegrams and a cash book, general history and various technical publications and sketches. The fonds also includes a significant portion of the Western Union Housing Committee minute books and property agreements.

Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company North Sydney