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Index Russian–American Telegraph

The Russian–American Telegraph, also known as the Western Union Telegraph Expedition and the Collins Overland Telegraph, was an attempt by the Western Union Telegraph Company from 1865 to 1867 to lay a telegraph line from San Francisco, California, to Moscow, Russia.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 89 relations: Abraham Lincoln, Alaska Purchase, Amur, Ashcroft, British Columbia, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Telegraph Company, Barkerville, Bering Sea, Bering Strait, Bulkley Ranges, Bulkley River, Bulkley Valley, Burns Lake, Cariboo Gold Rush, Cariboo Road, Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871), Cyrus W. Field, Decker Lake (British Columbia), Duty (tax), Ethnocentrism, Eurasia, Fauna, Flora, Fort Fraser, British Columbia, Franklin Leonard Pope, Fraser River, Frederick Whymper, George Kennan (explorer), Gitxsan, Hagwilget, Hagwilget Canyon Bridge, Hazelton, British Columbia, Hiram Sibley, Hope, British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company, Japan, Kennecott, Alaska, Kennedy Trail, Kennicott Glacier, Kispiox River, Klondike Gold Rush, Lake Laberge, Manifest destiny, Moscow, Mud Bay, British Columbia, Natural history, Nechako Reservoir, Nome, Alaska, Norton Sound, ... Expand index (39 more) »

  2. 1865 establishments in the United States
  3. 1865 in British Columbia
  4. 19th century in technology
  5. Events of National Historic Significance (Canada)
  6. History of Yukon
  7. History of science and technology in Russia
  8. History of telecommunications in Russia
  9. History of telecommunications in the United States
  10. History of the telegraph
  11. Military expeditions of the United States
  12. Pacific expeditions
  13. Russian America
  14. Russian Empire–United States relations
  15. Telegraph companies
  16. Western Union

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Alaska Purchase

The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire to the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $ million in). On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18. Russian–American Telegraph and Alaska Purchase are Russian America and Russian Empire–United States relations.

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Amur

The Amur River (река Амур) or Heilong River is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is long, and has a drainage basin of., Great Soviet Encyclopedia If including its main stem tributary, the Argun, the Amur is long, making it the world's tenth longest river.

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Ashcroft, British Columbia

Ashcroft is a village municipality that straddles the Thompson River in the Thompson Country region of south central British Columbia, Canada.

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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Atlantic Telegraph Company

The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a company formed on 6 November 1856 to undertake and exploit a commercial telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean, the first such telecommunications link. Russian–American Telegraph and Atlantic Telegraph Company are telegraph companies.

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Barkerville

Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada, and is preserved as a historic town.

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Bering Sea

The Bering Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean.

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Bering Strait

The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.

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Bulkley Ranges

The Bulkley Ranges are a mountain range in northern British Columbia, Canada, located between the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers south of Hazelton, north of the Morice River and Zymoetz River.

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Bulkley River

The Bulkley River in British Columbia is a major tributary of the Skeena River.

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Bulkley Valley

The Bulkley Valley is in the northwest Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Burns Lake

Burns Lake is a rural village in the North-western-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, incorporated in 1923.

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Cariboo Gold Rush

The Cariboo Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Colony of British Columbia, which later became the Canadian province of British Columbia. Russian–American Telegraph and Cariboo Gold Rush are history of British Columbia.

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Cariboo Road

The Cariboo Road (also called the Cariboo Wagon Road, the Great North Road or the Queen's Highway) was a project initiated in 1860 by the Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, James Douglas. Russian–American Telegraph and Cariboo Road are history of British Columbia.

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Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871)

The Colony of British Columbia was a British Crown Colony that resulted from the 1866 merger of two British colonies, the Colony of Vancouver Island and the mainland Colony of British Columbia.

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Cyrus W. Field

Cyrus West Field (November 30, 1819July 12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.

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Decker Lake (British Columbia)

Decker Lake is a lake in the Bulkley River drainage of northwestern British Columbia, Canada.

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Duty (tax)

In economics, a duty is a target-specific form of tax levied by a state or other political entity.

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Ethnocentrism

Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead of using the standards of the particular culture involved.

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Eurasia

Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Flora

Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.

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Fort Fraser, British Columbia

Fort Fraser is an unincorporated village of about 500 people, situated near the base of Fraser Mountain, close to the village municipality of Fraser Lake and the Nechako River.

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Franklin Leonard Pope

Franklin Leonard Pope (2 December 1840 – 13 October 1895) was an American engineer, explorer, and inventor.

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Fraser River

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for, into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver.

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Frederick Whymper

Frederick Whymper (20 July 1838 in London – 26 November 1901) was a British artist and explorer. Russian–American Telegraph and Frederick Whymper are history of Yukon.

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George Kennan (explorer)

George Kennan (February 16, 1845 – May 10, 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of the Russian Empire.

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Gitxsan

Gitxsan (also spelled Gitksan and Kitksan) are an Indigenous people in Canada whose home territory comprises most of the area known as the Skeena Country in English (Git: means "people of" and Xsan: means "the River of Mist").

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Hagwilget

Hagwilget or Hagwilgyet is a First Nations reserve community of the Gitxsan people located on the lower Bulkley River just east of Hazelton in northwestern British Columbia, Canada.

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Hagwilget Canyon Bridge

Hagwilget Canyon Bridge is a suspension bridge over the Hagwilget Canyon on the Bulkley River, at the Wet'suwet'en village of Hagwilget, British Columbia.

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Hazelton, British Columbia

Hazelton is a village municipality in the Skeena region of west central British Columbia, Canada.

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Hiram Sibley

Hiram W. Sibley (February 6, 1807 – July 12, 1888), was an American industrialist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who was a pioneer of the telegraph in the United States.

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Hope, British Columbia

Hope is a district municipality at the confluence of the Fraser and Coquihalla rivers in the province of British Columbia, Canada.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is an American and Canadian-based retail business group.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Kennecott, Alaska

Kennecott, also known as Kennicott and Kennecott Mines, is an abandoned mining camp in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was the center of activity for several copper mines.

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Kennedy Trail

The Kennedy Trail was the first settler built trail in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Russian–American Telegraph and Kennedy Trail are history of British Columbia.

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Kennicott Glacier

Kennicott Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Kispiox River

The Kispiox River is a river in the Skeena Country of British Columbia, Canada.

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Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Russian–American Telegraph and Klondike Gold Rush are history of Yukon.

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Lake Laberge

Lake Laberge is a widening of the Yukon River north of Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada.

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Manifest destiny

Manifest destiny was a phrase that represented the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny").

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mud Bay, British Columbia

Mud Bay is the name of the northeast side of Boundary Bay on the Canada–United States border, and an unincorporated place on the bay.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Nechako Reservoir

The Nechako Reservoir, sometimes called the Ootsa Lake Reservoir, is a hydroelectric reservoir in British Columbia, Canada that was formed by the Kenney Dam making a diversion of the Nechako River through a 16-km intake tunnel in the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains to the 890 MW Kemano Generating Station at sea level at Kemano to service the then-new Alcan aluminum smelter at Kitimat.

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Nome, Alaska

Nome ((Sitŋasuaq,, also Sitŋazuaq, Siqnazuaq)) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the US state of Alaska.

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Norton Sound

Norton Sound (Inupiaq: Imaqpak) is an inlet of the Bering Sea on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, south of the Seward Peninsula.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Perry Collins

Perry McDonough Collins (1813–1900)Corday Mackay,, in British Columbia Historical Quarterly, Vol X, Victoria BC, July 1946, pp. Russian–American Telegraph and Perry Collins are history of British Columbia and Russian America.

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Port Clarence, Alaska

Port Clarence is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Nome Census Area of Alaska.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Quesnel, British Columbia

Quesnel (Kee-nel in French) is a city located in the Cariboo Regional District of British Columbia, Canada.

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Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako

The Regional District of Bulkley–Nechako (RDBN) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada.

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Riverboat

A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways.

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Robert Kennicott

Robert Kennicott (November 13, 1835 – May 13, 1866) was an American naturalist and herpetologist. Russian–American Telegraph and Robert Kennicott are history of Yukon.

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Russian colonization of North America

From 1732 to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas. Russian–American Telegraph and Russian colonization of North America are history of Yukon and Russian America.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.

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Skeena River

The Skeena River is the second-longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada (after the Fraser River).

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Slave ship

Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves.

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Sled dog

A sled dog is a dog trained and used to pull a land vehicle in harness, most commonly a sled over snow.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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St. Michael, Alaska

St.

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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Submarine communications cable

A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.

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Tariff

A tariff is a tax imposed by the government of a country or by a supranational union on imports or exports of goods.

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Telegraph Creek

Telegraph Creek is a small community located off Highway 37 in northern British Columbia at the confluence of the Stikine River and Telegraph Creek.

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Telegraph Range

The Telegraph Range is a small hill-range located on the Nechako Plateau to the south of Ootsa Lake in the Cariboo Land District of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

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Telegraphy

Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Russian–American Telegraph and Telegraphy are 19th century in technology.

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Telkwa

Telkwa is a village located along British Columbia Highway 16, nearly southeast of the town of Smithers and west of the city of Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, Canada.

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Transatlantic telegraph cable

Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Russian–American Telegraph and Transatlantic telegraph cable are 19th century in technology.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Secretary of State

The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.

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USS Nightingale (1851)

USS Nightingale was originally the tea clipper and slave ship Nightingale, launched in 1851.

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USS Saginaw (1859)

The first USS Saginaw was a sidewheel sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.

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Washington Territory

The Territory of Washington was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1853, until November 11, 1889, when the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Washington.

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Western Union

The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with several other telegraph companies. Russian–American Telegraph and Western Union are history of the telegraph.

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White Rock, British Columbia

White Rock is a city in British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District.

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William H. Seward

William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.

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William Healey Dall

William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska.

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Yale, British Columbia

Yale is an unincorporated town in the Canadian province of British Columbia, which grew in importance during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Russian–American Telegraph and Yale, British Columbia are history of British Columbia.

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Yukon

Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.

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Yukon River

The Yukon River is a major watercourse of northwestern North America. From its source in British Columbia, it flows through Canada's territory of Yukon (itself named after the river). The lower half of the river continues westward through the U.S. state of Alaska. The river is long and empties into the Bering Sea at the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta.

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Yukon Telegraph Trail

The Yukon Telegraph Trail, also known simply as the Telegraph Trail, is a historic pathway in the Canadian province of British Columbia that extends from the village of Ashcroft in the south to the community of Atlin in the north.

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See also

1865 establishments in the United States

1865 in British Columbia

19th century in technology

Events of National Historic Significance (Canada)

History of Yukon

History of science and technology in Russia

History of telecommunications in Russia

  • Russian–American Telegraph

History of telecommunications in the United States

History of the telegraph

Military expeditions of the United States

Pacific expeditions

Russian America

Russian Empire–United States relations

Telegraph companies

Western Union

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian–American_Telegraph

Also known as Collins Overland Telegraph, Russian American Telegraph, Western Union Telegraph Expedition.

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