LEADER 04656nam 22007094a 450 001 9910822130103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-85863-7 010 $a9786612858635 010 $a0-7735-6844-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773568440 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244935 035 $a(OCoLC)144078383 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10121254 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280966 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195814 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280966 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10300678 035 $a(PQKB)10161360 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400043 035 $a(CaBNvSL)gtp00521329 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330716 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132899 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285863 035 $a(OCoLC)929120550 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/d8jfj5 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330716 035 $a(DE-B1597)654983 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773568440 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243791 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244935 100 $a20030730d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe invisible empire $ea history of the telecommunications industry in Canada, 1846-1956 /$fJean-Guy Rens ; translated by Kathe Roth 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (408 p.) 300 $aTranslation of: L'empire invisible. 311 $a0-7735-2052-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [365]-377) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tThe Pioneering Era: Inventions and Impediments, 1846?1915 -- $tTelegraphy -- $tThe Birth of Telegraphy -- $tThe Telegraph Industry Gets Organized -- $tThe Telephone -- $tInvention of the Telephone -- $tThe Telephone Comes to Canada -- $tBell Comes Out Fighting -- $tBalkanization of the Telephone Industry -- $tThe Birth of Northern Electric and Technological Advances -- $tUnbridled Capitalism and Language Clashes -- $tThe Telephone Industry in Canada and the International Scene -- $tRadio -- $tRadio: A Spectacular Success -- $tCreating Universal Service, 1915?56 -- $tCreation of a National Industry -- $tBell?s Long March to Independence -- $tThe Other Telephone Companies -- $tSocial Benefits and Labour Peace in the Telephone Industry -- $tThe Canadian Regulatory Model -- $tElectromechanical Technology Hits Its Peak -- $tThe International Scene -- $tConclusion: How Telephony Changed the World -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIt is impossible to understand Canada without looking at the history and development of its telecommunications industry. In the nineteenth century Canada was the only country in the world constructed on the basis of technology - first the railway and, in its shadow, telegraphy. In the 1930s this technological nationalism came of age and telecommunications became Canada's "national" technology. The Invisible Empire provides the first overview of Canadian telecommunications, from the laying of the first telegraph line between Toronto and Hamilton in 1846 to the separation between Nortel - then known as Northern Electric - and the American Bell System in 1956. Rens shows us that Louis Riel was beaten as much by telegraphy as by the Canadian army, and how Bell Canada - then known as Bell Telephone - escaped nationalization by Sir Wilfrid Laurier's government. He follows the construction of the first trans-Canadian telephone line in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s and explains why, in the context of the Cold War, Canada built an electronic Great Wall of China in the far North. Rens examines the context that allowed the telecommunications industry to take hold so successfully in Canada and explores how the industry grew so quickly and managed to escape American domination. He situates Canadian accomplishments in telecommunications by comparing them with those of other countries. 517 3 $aHistory of the telecommunications industry in Canada 606 $aTelecommunication$zCanada$xHistory 606 $aTelecommunications$zCanada$xHistoire 615 0$aTelecommunication$xHistory. 615 6$aTelecommunications$xHistoire. 676 $a384/.0971 700 $aRens$b Jean-Guy$f1946-$01703268 701 $aRoth$b Kathe$00 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822130103321 996 $aThe invisible empire$94088340 997 $aUNINA