Editing Cabot Strait (section)

===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>