Editing Cabot Strait (section)

==Shipping==
A strategically important waterway throughout Canadian and Newfoundland history, the strait is also an important international shipping route, being the primary waterway linking the Atlantic with inland ports on the [[Great Lakes]] and [[St. Lawrence Seaway]].

In October 1942, German U-boat [[German submarine U-69 (1940)|''U-69'']] torpedoed and sank the unlit Newfoundland ferry {{SS|Caribou}}, killing 137 people.<ref name="caribou_uboat.net">{{cite web|url=http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/2270.html|title=Caribou (Steam merchant) - Ships hit by U-boats - uboat.net|access-date=2010-06-19}}</ref>  Then on 25 November 1944 [[HMCS Shawinigan (K136)|HMCS ''Shawinigan'']] was torpedoed and sunk with all hands on board (91 crew) by {{GS|U-1228}}.<ref name=German>{{cite book |last=German |first=Tony |year=1990 |title=The Sea is at our Gates : The History of the Canadian Navy |publisher=McClelland and Stewart Inc. |location=Toronto |pages=[https://archive.org/details/seaisatourgatesh00germ/page/177 177] |isbn=978-0-7710-3269-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/seaisatourgatesh00germ/page/177 }}</ref>

In 1998, the Cypriot bulk carrier the {{ship|MV|Flare}} split in half in the Cabot Strait while sailing from Rotterdam to Quebec with the loss of 21 lives on board.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ship-owners-sued-for-1998-sinking/article18427616/ | title=Ship owners sued for 1998 sinking | newspaper=The Globe and Mail | date=16 November 2000 }}</ref>

===Communications===
The strait is crossed daily by the [[Marine Atlantic]] ferry service linking [[Channel-Port aux Basques]] and [[North Sydney, Nova Scotia|North Sydney]].  [[Ferries]] have been operating across the strait since 1898, and a [[submarine telegraph cable]] was laid in 1856 as part of the [[transatlantic telegraph cable]] project.<ref name="bbc"/>

The [[Trans Canada Microwave]] system was extended to [[Newfoundland]] in 1959.<ref name = "CBC-Radio Microwave of the Future">{{cite news |url= https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/1.3626645 | title=Micro-wave of the future | date=23 September 1956|accessdate=19 June 2024 | work=CBC Digital Archive|publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref> To get it to Newfoundland, it was fed from [[Sydney, Nova Scotia]] to a repeater in Cape North that was 427 metres above sea-level. That allowed it cross the 127 kilometres across the Cabot Strait to a repeater station perched 198 metres above sea-level in [[Red Rocks, Newfoundland and Labrador]]. From there, the signal was microwaved over land to [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | St. John's]].<ref name = "Bridging the Cabot Strait">
{{cite news
 | author      = CP Staff
 | title       = Trans-Canada "Microwave" Looms
 | work        = [[The Kingston Whig-Standard]]
 | location    = [[Kingston, Ontario]]
 | agency      = The Canadian Press
 | page        = 19
 | date        = 24 July 1957
 | url         = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kingston-whig-standard-trans-canada/149996464/
 | access-date = 24 June 2024
 | via         = Newspapers.com
}}</ref>