Hazel Hill, Nova Scotia

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Hazel Hill
Hazel Hill in Nova Scotia
Coordinates: 45°19′28″N61°1′51″W / 45.32444°N 61.03083°W / 45.32444; -61.03083 (Hazel Hill, Nova Scotia) Coordinates: 45°19′28″N61°1′51″W / 45.32444°N 61.03083°W / 45.32444; -61.03083 (Hazel Hill, Nova Scotia)

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]

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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

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]

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References

  1. "Hazel Hill". Geographical Names Board of Canada . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  2. Belfort, Roland. "At an Atlantic Cable Station (1895)". History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications. Atlantic Cable.
  3. "Canso & Hazel Hill - The Cable Story in Canso". History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications. Atlantic Cable.
  4. "Commercial Cable Building". Canada's Historic Places. Parks Canada . Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  5. "Guysborough County's abandoned commercial cable station to be demolished". CTV News Atlantic. Bell Media. July 14, 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  6. "Photographs of Commercial Cable Company Telegraph Office" . Retrieved 14 July 2017.
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