Communication and Transportation Canada

By Runkaibai

  • Griffon Launched

    Griffon Launched
    Cavelier de La Salle launched the Griffon, a boat armed with 7 cannon, on Lake Erie near the mouth of the Niagara River. It was the first European vessel on the Great Lakes.

  • First printing press

    First printing press
    Bartholomew Green established the first printing press in Canada at Halifax.

  • First newspaper printed.

    First newspaper printed.
    Canada's first newspaper, the Halifax Gazette, was printed by John Bushell. He also published the first book in Canada on 6 December; it was an 8-page pamphlet for the government.

  • First post office

    First post office
    The first post office in Canada was opened in Halifax.

  • North West America Launched

    North West America Launched
    The North West America, the first European vessel built on the BC coast, was launched by John Meares, sea captain, entrepreneur and fur trader. The ship was used in the trade for sea otter pelts.

  • First Stagecoach Service

    First Stagecoach Service
    The first stagecoach service was established between Queenston and Fort Erie.

  • Welland Canal Opened

    Welland Canal Opened
    Two schooners passed from Port Dalhousie to Port Robinson, Upper Canada, symbolically opening the Welland Canal and linking Lakes Erie and Ontario for the first time. The canal opened the way to the west and countered the threat of the US Erie Canal.

  • First Steamer on the Pacific

    First Steamer on the Pacific
    The Hudson's Bay Company steamer Beaver, the first on the Pacific Coast, arrived at Fort Vancouver (near present-day Portland, Oregon).

  • First Railway Opens in Canada

    First Railway Opens in Canada
    Canada's first railway, the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad, officially opened; it began operations on July 25. The railway heralded the most important change in transportation in Canadian history.

  • First Canadian Stamp

    First Canadian Stamp
    The first Canadian postage stamp, a Three-Pence Beaver, was issued. It was followed by a Twelve-Pence Black, showing Queen Victoria at the age of 19, and a Six-Pence Prince Consort, which carried a portrait of Prince Albert.

  • First propeller-driven Steamship

    First propeller-driven Steamship
    The Otter, the first propeller-driven steamship in the North Pacific, arrived and went into general trading and tow-boating service.

  • Telegraph Message to Valencia

    Telegraph Message to Valencia
    The first telegraph message was sent from Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, to Valencia, Ireland, on cable laid by USS Niagara and HMS Agamemnon.

  • steam buggy(Early Automobiles)

    steam buggy(Early Automobiles)
    The first Canadian automobile, a steam buggy built by Henry Seth Taylor in 1867, was regarded as a novelty. Similarly, the Fossmobile, which was constructed by George Foote Foss in 1897 was never mass-produced.

  • First Transatlantic Radio Report

    First Transatlantic Radio Report
    The first transatlantic radio press report was filed from Glace Bay, NS, by a Times correspondent

  • The first production of aircraft in Canada

    The first production of aircraft in Canada
    The Curtiss JN-3 airplane, begins in Toronto. 1919 – The Canadian Pacific Railway Company makes a request to the Government of Canada to launch a passenger air service

  • First passenger flights Canada

    First passenger flights Canada
    The first commercial passenger flight took place in 1920, when 2 bush pilots flew a fur buyer north to The Pas, Man, from Winnipeg.

  • The first television

    The first television
    Development of television. The first experimental television broadcast began in 1932 in Montreal, Quebec, under the call sign of VE9EC. The broadcasts of VE9EC were broadcast in 60 to 150 lines of resolution at 41 MHz.

  • Internet

    Internet
    Canada's DATAPAC was the world's first public data network based on X. 25 when it opened for use in 1976.