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Figure 25.3. Postcard of Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer.
WHO ARE SOME OF THE BEST KNOWN CANADIANS?
Canadians are rightly proud of their countrymen's accomplishments. Many in the realms of
science and technology overcame the barriers of time and space (geography as destiny?).
In 1857 Frederick Gisborne invented the undersea telegraph cable. In 1878 Alexander Gra-
ham Bell obtained a patent for the telephone, sending the human voice across time and