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Upon their arrival in Sydney Mines, workers aboard the C.S. Colonia used barrels as floatation devices to move the cable ashore.
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Laying of cable
1913
Sydney Mines, NS
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Underground cable trench
1913
Sydney Mines, NS
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The cable was then laid along deep trenches by using cable rollers. Workers wound the length of the cable along the rollers to move it more easily.
Adjacent is the cable roller used during the transfer of cable from Lloyd's Cove to the Western Union Office on Court Street, North Sydney, Nova Scotia, a distance of 3 miles.
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Cable roller
1913
Sydney Mines, NS
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The Western Union had succeeded in diverting its transatlantic cable through Newfoundland to Lloyd's Cove, Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia.
Consequently, all communications originally coming to Canso, Nova Scotia were now diverted to North Sydney.
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Cable house, Sydney Mines
1913
Sydney Mines, NS
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Cable House, Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia.
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Cable Hut
2004
Sydney Mines, NS
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Here we see the Cable Hut as it looks in 2004.
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Lloyd's Cove, Sydney Mines, where the cable came ashore.
2004
Sydney Mines, NS
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Lloyd's Cove, Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia in 2004.
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Cable Street, Sydney Mines, NS.
2004
Sydney Mines, NS
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Cable Street, Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia was named for the cable that came ashore at Lloyd's Cove.