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  2. Utility location - Wikipedia

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    Colored lines, flags, or both are used to mark the location and denote the type of underground utility. A special type of spray paint dispenser, which works when the can is upside-down, is used to mark lines, often in a fluorescent color. On flags, a logo often identifies the company or municipal utility which the lines belong to.

  3. Power lines connecting Vancouver Island with Canadian ...

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    The power grid of Vancouver Island is owned and operated by BC Hydro, and is connected with that of the Mainland of British Columbia by high voltage AC submarine cables, and formerly by a DC submarine cable system. [1] These links, which all consist of overhead line sections on land together with submarine cables are:

  4. Telecommunications in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The All Red Line cable for the British Empire.Canada as an interconnection-point. c.a. 1903. The history of telegraphy in Canada dates back to the Province of Canada.While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated ...

  5. Geography of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean. [1]

  6. Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system - Wikipedia

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    The 735 kV power line is said to lessen the environmental impact of power lines, as one single power line operating at this voltage carries the same amount of electric power as four 315 kV power lines, which would require a right-of-way wider than the 80.0–91.5 metres (262.5–300.2 ft) [29] [30] width required for a single 735 kV line.

  7. Lac-Mégantic, Quebec - Wikipedia

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    This line opened in 1889, and was operated by International Railway of Maine, a subsidiary of CPR. Mégantic was the meeting place of two railroads at that time: the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Quebec Central Railway. The CPR line was more important because of its adaptation to large freight and passenger trains.

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  9. List of towns in Canada - Wikipedia

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    List of cities in Canada; List of cities in North America; List of city nicknames in Canada; List of largest Canadian cities by census; List of the largest cities and towns in Canada by area; List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population; List of the largest population centres in Canada; List of villages in Canada; Origins of names ...