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60-819: (Redirected from East-Link ) Eastlink may refer to: Eastlink (company) , a communications provider in Canada Eastlink Community TV , the brand for EastLink's community channels Eastlink Wireless , a mobile network operator owned by Eastlink East-Link (Dublin) , a toll bridge in Dublin, Ireland EastLink (Melbourne) , a toll road in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Eastlink Centre , an arena and convention facility in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada East Link Extension ,

120-449: A change of -2.8% from its 2016 population of 8,292 . With a land area of 83.98 km (32.42 sq mi), it had a population density of 95.9/km (248.5/sq mi) in 2021. In 2006, 68% of the population identified French as its first language, 36% identified English as its first language, and 0.02% identified a non-official language as its first language (Cree etc.); 0.02% identified both French and English. The median age of

180-572: A geared-to-income housing complex). They were commissioned by the Spruce Falls Company Ltd. These buildings were all built in an impressive Neo-Tudor style and would form the nucleus of the town. In 1951, the inn hosted Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh on their first visit to Canada. The landmark inn closed in 2002 and fell in disrepair but was slated for renovation by new investors. On May 22, 2007, youths set fire to

240-805: A light rail line serving the Eastside region of the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington Eastlink hotel , a sculpture by Callum Morton in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia East Link (Sweden) , a planned high-speed railway in Sweden EastLink Trail , a shared use cyclist/pedestrian path in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia See also [ edit ] East Tangential Link or Tangentiale Verbindung Ost, an expressway in Berlin, Germany East-West Link (disambiguation) East Line (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

300-923: A repeater of CTV outlet CITO-TV Timmins . Sensenbrenner Hospital was built in 1927-1929 by the Spruce Falls Pulp & Paper Company for its workers. At the time the hospital was one of northern Ontario's finest. In 1988 the need for a more modern facility arose and the ultra-modern 53 bed complex was built in a different part of the town. Sensenbrenner serves a regional population of 14,000 residents. The hospital provides both in-patient and out-patient care. Clinical services include; emergency services, chronic cardiorespiratory, acute neurology, specialty clinics, general medicine, surgery, anaesthesia, obstetrics, pediatrics, chronic and long-term care, rehabilitation, and other related diagnostic and treatment services. The health care services are assessment, evaluation, screening, treatment programs and direct therapy. In 1995

360-708: A year later on June 6, 2024, Corus announced an agreement to reinstate its channels on Eastlink, albeit in paid theme packs rather than as part of the main television bundle. More than 400,000 television service subscribers. Kapuskasing, Ontario Kapuskasing ( / ˌ k æ p ə s ˈ k eɪ s ɪ ŋ / KAP -əss- KAY -sing ) is a town on the Kapuskasing River in the Cochrane District of Northern Ontario , Canada, approximately 92 kilometres (57 mi) east of Hearst and 130 kilometres (81 mi) northwest of Timmins . The town

420-540: Is also featured in Tomson Highway's award-winning play Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing . In Season 12 of Degrassi , junior pro hockey player Campbell Saunders comes from Kapuskasing. The protagonist of Alice Munro 's story "Train" (2012), set in the early 1960s, is hopeful when he heads for Kapuskasing: "Work there, sure to be work in a lumbering town". Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge has

480-582: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Eastlink (company) The company began in Amherst, Nova Scotia , in 1969, where it was later issued one of the first cable licences granted by the CRTC . It acquired Halifax Cablevision Ltd. , at the time the largest system in Eastern Canada, in 1985. Through a series of acquisitions, which included

540-402: Is drained by rivers running north to James Bay . The district is heavily forested, mostly by thick stands of black spruce that have commercial value as pulpwood . Kapuskasing has a humid, continental climate (Koppen Dfb). Kapuskasing has long, cold winters and warm, sometimes humid summers. Spring and autumn are relatively short transitional seasons. Visitors often comment on the deep blue of

600-584: Is economically or subjectively defined and is perceived very differently by persons with different latency expectations and service usage patterns, therefore perceptions of its quality are also subjective; Persons accustomed to dialup service may be thrilled with Canopy performance, whereas those used to wired cable find it slow or flaky. Canopy service deployment encountered numerous challenges in practice, including installation of unforeseen wireless relay towers installed on an ad hoc basis that increase latency, reduce service reliability and load other towers –

660-551: Is not necessarily included under these plans; the price per gigabyte of the Eastlink service is clearly superior to any of these offerings. However, the maximum speed is much less (1.5Mbit/s download versus up to 21Mbit/s) and more so when these cellular providers upgrade to dual-carrier (42Mbit/s) HSPA+ . For those more concerned with speed and less with price, cellular options will be a superior rural networking choice; for those concerned with price, Eastlink's fixed wireless service,

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720-494: Is the town's MPP and represents the provincial Mushkegowuk—James Bay riding. Locally the town is led by Mayor David Plourde. The mayor works with six councillors to complete Kapuskasing's municipal government. Local officials are all elected through universal elections, meaning the town is not divided into wards. Kapuskasing's locally originated media include English-language commercial radio station CKAP (branded as Moose FM), French-language community radio station CKGN , and

780-513: The Bragg family of Oxford, Nova Scotia . In 2008, Eastlink purchased the wireline business of ISN, Prince Edward Island 's only local internet service provider. As of 2020, ISN re-entered the wireline business with a home and business fibre service. In 2023, Eastlink purchased Kapuskasing, Ontario ISP NeoTech. Eastlink delivers digital video/television and cable-network-based Internet services with speeds up to 940 megabits per second, one of

840-639: The National Transcontinental Railway , forerunner of the Canadian National Railway , was built through the area in 1911. An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected by the province to commemorate the founding of Kapuskasing's role in Ontario's heritage. A post-war scheme to settle Canadian Corps combat veterans in the area proved unsuccessful. It was not until the start of pulp and paper milling operations in

900-603: The United States Army Air Forces . The town may have ceased its importance as a location for a traditional military radar base, but has become a site for the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network that is involved with tracking and measuring ionospheric turbulence. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Kapuskasing had a population of 8,057 living in 3,790 of its 4,134 total private dwellings,

960-517: The 1920s that Kapuskasing began to develop as an organized community. Val Albert Name taken from that of an early settler and assigned by postal authorities on October 7, 1936, "to correspond with the village known as {Val} Albert" (CPCGN files). Annexed by Kapuskasing on January 1, 1974. The Kapuskasing River Pulp and Timber limit, that included 4,500 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi) of timber and hydro leases at Sturgeon Falls , White Spruce Rapids (Spruce Falls) and Big Beaver Falls,

1020-735: The English-language Kapuskasing Northern Times and bilingual Le/The Weekender community newspapers and the French newspaper L'Horizon . Le Nord , a French newspaper from Hearst, is also available in Kapuskasing. English-language daily newspaper the Timmins Daily Press offers minimal coverage through its regional reporting of the Cochrane District . The community receives its only aerial television coverage from CITO-TV-1 channel 10,

1080-700: The Kapuskasing Internment Camp's role in Ontario's heritage. Governments of the day were mistakenly impressed with the agricultural potential of the Great Clay Belt. A federal government experimental farm had been established on the west side of the river to explore and develop crops and systems for farming the area. Under the Returned Soldiers and Sailors Act of 1917, the Kapuskasing Soldier Colony

1140-536: The Kapuskasing River and tributaries in 1900 had local Cree guides familiar with the country who provided the local place names and their meanings to them. In this report the word Kapuskasing is said to mean "Whispering Water". At the location where the CNR crossed the Kapuskasing River in 1910, there was an island in the centre of the river. Power and storage dams were built at that location in 1923. Prior to

1200-665: The Kapuskasing River derived its name from the lake at its head. In 1900, the Bureau of Colonization of the Ontario Department of Agriculture sent parties to survey the region north of the Canadian Pacific Railway between the Quebec border and Lake Nipigon . Their main interest was to seek out and delimit areas for further agricultural settlements that would give Ontario a new farming frontier to offset

1260-411: The Kapuskasing River in 1913 and was the main means of transportation accessing the town until the late 1950s and early 1960s when Highway 11 became the main route to the city. Kapuskasing Airport was once a refueling stop for Trans-Canada Air Lines flights in the days before jet airliners. It no longer has scheduled flights. The former Spruce Falls, now GreenFirst Forest Products , had purchased

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1320-642: The Kapuskasing River. Isolation provided ideal security for the minimum security camp, as the railway was the only access to the remote location. Prisoners who attempted to escape into the bush were turned back by endless muskeg and clouds of mosquitoes or minus-40 degree temperatures in winter. In 1917, most were paroled to help relieve labour shortages. Afterwards, the camp was used for prisoners of war and political radicals until its closure in 1920. While serving as camp paymaster at Kapuskasing during its use for POWs, Captain Watson Kirkconnell , who

1380-563: The Ontario Provincial Police is located at the site of the old Kapuskasing Inn. Kapuskasing has Enhanced 911 (E911) service for Fire, Ambulance and Police. Kapuskasing is mentioned in the 1994 children’s book Where is Gah-Ning , by Robert Munsch . In the story, a young Chinese-Canadian girl wants to visit Kapuskasing, but her father says no. She tries to go by bicycle and later on roller blades; she finally succeeds in getting there by floating on 300 helium balloons. It

1440-565: The Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company was incorporated under joint ownership of Kimberly-Clark and The New York Times . The new company negotiated two additional hydro power leases to the north on the Mattagami River at Smoky Falls and Devils Rapids. Work to build a 550 ton/day paper mill at Kapuskasing, a 75,000 HP hydro generating station at Smoky Falls and a 80 kilometres (50 mi) railway and power line connecting

1500-564: The attraction of the western prairies. In 1900, the Department of Crown Lands commissioned a Survey of Exploration of Northern Ontario. Survey parties were sent out to explore, document and report back to the Province on the various resources of water power, timber, etc., that might be available for exploitation. No roads existed, but northern Cree Indians and fur traders had used the local rivers connecting to James Bay for centuries. In

1560-768: The cable network where it would be easy to do so or even where it would facilitate the wireless services). Most open-systems-minded users considered Canopy an impractical direction compared to expansion of Wi-Fi hotspot services. Its primary competitor, Aliant , by contrast has invested in Wi-Fi, GSM and DSL services, but they remained as of 2011 expensive or unavailable in rural Nova Scotia. Some jurisdictions that report unsatisfactory results with all of these technologies, including Canopy, such as Door County, Wisconsin 's Washington Island , have reported positive results with powerline networking . However, as power-lines do not reach "100% of civic addresses" they do not address quite

1620-667: The cities of Timmins and Sudbury in northern Ontario. Eastlink activated its LTE network, including Voice over LTE , in Timmins on June 1, 2016 with the LTE network in Sudbury activated on June 9, 2016. In March 2022, Eastlink launched a 5G network in partnership with Ericsson . Right now the new 5G network is live in parts of the Halifax Regional Municipality and Saint John, New Brunswick . Eastlink

1680-691: The company's cable customers. Eastlink offers video on demand , digital video recorders and high definition television ( HDTV ) services in many communities across Canada. Eastlink spent $ 25 million during the 2008 Advanced Wireless Services auction for 19 licenses in Ontario and Atlantic Canada as well as Grande Prairie , Alberta . The company announced in 2011 that it would introduce wireless services, beginning with Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island . In February 2013, Eastlink launched its wireless service with evolved high speed packet access (HSPA+) and long-term evolution (LTE) services available at

1740-473: The dam construction, the rapids at that location was known as "White Spruce Rapids" and later known simply as "Spruce Falls". The first Spruce Falls Company of 1920 took its name from these rapids. Kapuskasing lies in the heart of the Great Clay Belt . The topography of the region is very flat, dotted with numerous small lakes and muskeg bogs. Also in the heart of Canada's boreal forest , the region

1800-572: The expansion of Wi-Fi hotspots, and the use of 802.11u and 802.21 will continue to form a more reliable mesh especially in attracting tourists or in densely populated areas. In terms of speed, where it could reach groups of customers inaccessible by Canopy, Eastlink's wired network would be substantially faster, operating at up to 100Mbit/s download, compared to 1.5Mbit/s download. Fixed-wireless internet is, however, many times faster than dial-up (1.5Mbit/s) and does (unlike satellite) satisfy most expectations of " broadband Internet access ". Broadband

1860-462: The faster networks of this kind in North America. It was one of the first companies in North America to bundle digital cable and broadband Internet services with home phone service. Eastlink's 350 and 940 megabit service have unlimited usage, both while standalone and while included in a bundle. Eastlink also produces community channels branded as Eastlink Community TV to serve

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1920-502: The government of Nova Scotia 's Broadband for Rural Nova Scotia initiative : a Motorola Canopy -based rural Internet service capable of 0.5 megabit uploads, 1.5 megabit downloads, which was intended to reach "100% of civic addresses" in Nova Scotia. This level of coverage is unique in North America and is a particular challenge in a province prone to extreme weather, fog, and winds. Eastlink claimed at public forums in early 2010 that

1980-717: The hospital built a private clinic wing near the Emergency Room. EMS services are provided by Sensenbrenner Hospital, which is managed by the Northeastern Ontario Medical Education Corporation (NOMEC). The Porcupine Health unit serves the town with preventive education, psychiatric services, social services and child social service. The town operates a fire department which is a member of the Fire Marshalls of Ontario, Public Fire Safety Council. A local branch of

2040-655: The inherent problems of a mesh network . Eastlink was not, as of November 2011, effectively held to its contractual obligation to provide "100% of civic addresses" with service nor its latency promises, even where most such customers could be easily accommodated by extending its wired network to these existing wireless relay towers. In particular, users on islands with water access were denied service as of summer 2011. Installers as of November 2011 had no way to test latency before asking for customer sign-off and final installation, meaning that any user whose latency needs could not be met would not know that until after they had agreed

2100-562: The inn. It was damaged beyond repair. The arsonists were not charged as they were below the age of criminal responsibility at the time of the fire. The remains of the inn were demolished in May and June 2008. During World War I , the town was the site of one of the largest internment camps in Canada, at Bunk Houses in Kapuskasing from December 1914 to February 1920. The camp held over 1,300 German, Austrian, and Turkish prisoners, though originally

2160-474: The launch date. As Eastlink deployed many wireless repeater towers for its Motorola Canopy service launched as part of the Broadband for Rural Nova Scotia initiative , upgrading these to serve as a cellular and Wi-Fi mesh network with the intent of attracting third parties with no tower access, such as Wind, to partner with Eastlink. In May 2016, Eastlink announced that it would launch wireless service in

2220-478: The majority were civilian internees of Ukrainian descent who had emigrated from the provinces of Bukovina and Galicia , their homeland, which at the time were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire , in the first wave of Ukrainian emigration to Canada prior to 1914. Prisoners were employed in the construction of buildings and clearing of land for a government experimental farm on the west side of

2280-409: The next 20 years. The small sulphite mill started up in late 1922 with four 12-ton digesters and a daily output of 75 tons of pulp. Spent liquor was discharged untreated into the Kapuskasing River. Early development was plagued by major setbacks. Fire destroyed the construction camp and power project at Sturgeon Falls. A year's supply of pulpwood that was boomed up in the river was washed away in

2340-596: The population was 44.2 years in 2016. Travellers reach Kapuskasing by car, by Ontario Northland bus or by plane. The town's pulp and paper mill is served by the Ontario Northland Railway , which took over the trackage serving the mill in 1994. The mill is located near the original National Transcontinental Railway mainline (NTR) that was later nationalized as part of the Canadian National Railway. The railway line crossed

2400-405: The purchase of Amtelecom , Persona , Bluewater , Delta and Coast Cable , Eastlink became the fifth-largest cable television provider in Canada by 2010, with approximately 1,500 employees working in offices across the country. As of 2010, it was the largest privately owned cable company in Canada, with 457,075 subscribers in nine provinces (excluding Saskatchewan ). It remains privately held by

2460-535: The remainder mosquitoes and black flies." Settlers had also counted on the development of a pulp mill at Kapuskasing that would provide a local market for pulp wood. During World War II, Kapuskasing was one of five Northern Ontario radar bases that were set up to watch for potential attacks on the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan . Kapuskasing was the headquarters for the radar bases, which were manned by

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2520-774: The rights to the cable TV services in the areas formerly covered by Eastlink. In previous years, Eastlink operated acquired divisions Coast Cable on the Sunshine Coast , and Delta Cable in Delta, British Columbia , which it acquired in 2007. These brands were phased out to unify these divisions under Eastlink. Eastlink acquired Cable & Wireless and its service territory on the island of Bermuda for USD$ 70 million in 2011. On May 25, 2023, Eastlink announced that it would not renew its carriage agreement with Corus Entertainment , resulting in all of its specialty channels being removed from its services on June 27, 2023. Almost

2580-454: The same issues. The deployment of powerline-based meters by Emera subsidiary Bangor Hydro , which also owns Nova Scotia Power Inc. on the board of which Eastlink CEO Lee Bragg serves, suggests that this technology may ultimately become part of the Eastlink mix in some rural areas. As of early 2011, Rogers , Aliant , and Telus ' mobile Internet offerings are extraordinarily expensive for heavy users and tethering of personal computers

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2700-763: The service was adequate, based only on raw signal strength. As of late 2011, the project had still not yet reached its promise of "100% of civic addresses." Eastlink has not commented on the consistency of speeds or latency on this network nor released any public quality of service (QoS) statistics or actual usage information about the services its users actually use. It was widely anticipated that Eastlink would offer access to its new cell network in 2012 on favourable terms to cut-off rural users. Provinces which currently have some Eastlink service are: Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick (limited to southern regions), Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia. It also previously served

2760-513: The service would operate at under 100ms latency and accordingly be useful for VoIP from arbitrary third parties such as Skype , but this has not been verified. However, latency to the towers themselves was reliably under 2ms at that time. Critics of the Canopy service, notably Bell, argued that it is expensive (due to shorter range repeater towers). The strategy was poorly coordinated with cable networks (there being for instance no subsidy to extend

2820-710: The site from Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM) in 2021. The pulp and paper mill is the town's major employer, soon to be replaced by the Ontario Power Generation 's Smoky Falls Dam reconstruction site. A former employer was also the Agrium phosphate mine which shut down in 2013. General Motors Canada operates the GM Cold Weather Development Centre in Kapuskasing. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada operated an agricultural experiment station , or Experimental Farm, close to

2880-480: The sky during clear weather. Wildlife is abundant. Species such as moose , black bear , lynx and red fox are commonly seen in the area. Lakes and rivers are well populated with walleye , northern pike and yellow perch . Fishing and hunting are very popular recreational activities locally. Located near the western edge of the Clay Belt of "New Ontario", the town was founded in the early 20th century after

2940-495: The spring flood. A fire at the new mill killed two workers and brought production to a halt. In 1923, a water storage and hydro electric dam was built by Morrow and Beatty Ltd. of Peterborough at Spruce Falls. In 1925, the Spruce Falls Company Limited was awarded additional timber limits to the north and south, bringing their total limits up to 11,830 square kilometres (4,570 sq mi). In 1926,

3000-618: The summer of 1900 groups of surveyors traveled the many rivers of this remote area documenting their findings. The results were published by order of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as "Report of the Survey of Exploration of Northern Ontario 1900". The section of the report detailing the exploration of the Kapuskasing River contains references to the local Cree names for Sturgeon Falls, White Spruce Rapids, Kapuskasing River, and Big Beaver Falls, among others. Surveyors who explored

3060-578: The town of Point Roberts, Washington , in the United States , a geographic exclave of Washington which is accessible by land only from British Columbia; EastLink announced it would discontinue service to Point Roberts in 2019, citing the cost of maintaining the aging cable infrastructure in the town. Service in Saskatchewan was available in the past but is currently not available to new customers. Access Communications in Saskatchewan acquired

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3120-544: The town; the Experimental Farm closed in 2014. Kapuskasing has a federal representative known as a Member of Parliament, or MP, and a provincial representative known as a Member of Provincial Parliament, or MPP. Carol Hughes of the New Democratic Party is the area's MP and represents the federal riding of Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing . Guy Bourgouin , member of Ontario's New Democratic Party,

3180-443: The two got underway in the spring of 1926. The contractor for the entire project was Morrow and Beatty Ltd. of Peterborough. Since July 13, 1928, The New York Times has been printed entirely on Spruce Falls paper. The mill has run continuously ever since. The company became known locally as "Uncle Spruce" in affectionate reference to the steady work and benefits provided to this distinct northern community for many decades. The mill

3240-424: Was awarded to speculators Saphrenous A. Mundy and Elihu Stewart in 1917, and Spruce Falls Pulp and Paper Ltd. was incorporated, but no development took place. The still unexploited timber limits were sold to Kimberly-Clark in 1920. The new Spruce Falls Company Ltd. began the development of the first pulp mill in Kapuskasing under the direction of F.J. Sensenbrenner, a Vice President of Kimberly Clark Corporation for

3300-594: Was established to settle veterans returned from the Great War. Settlers received homesteads, grants, and guaranteed loans and were paid for clearing their own land. However, by 1920 only nine of more than a hundred original settlers remained, and the project was discontinued. A 1920 Commission of Enquiry into the failed settlement scheme found that the settlers had not been up to the task at hand. The inhospitable climate and geography had won out. One bitter settler testified, "There are 7 months snow, two months rain and

3360-564: Was known as MacPherson until 1917, when the name was changed so as not to conflict with another railway stop in Manitoba . The town of Kapuskasing gets its name from the Kapuskasing River . The first reported survey of the district in which Kapuskasing lies was carried out in 1875 by Dr. Robert Bell of the Geological Survey of Canada . He referred to the Kapuskasing River as the "Kai-bush-ka-sing". According to Bell's information,

3420-516: Was later to become a highly important figure in Canadian poetry , helped prevent a prisoner uprising and, on two occasions, he also discovered and foiled attempts to tunnel out of the camp. Despite years of grief over the combat death of his brother, Captain Kirkconnell later wrote, "Generally speaking, I could feel little animus against our German prisoners. Guarding them was simply a job. It

3480-652: Was the first major Canadian cable company to offer competitive local telephone service in its territory in 1999 over a fibre optic network. In 2005, the area code 902 telephone market was the most competitive telephone exchange in North America and this was credited to Eastlink's presence in the market. Eastlink was also the first provider to deliver local telephone competition to its service area in New Brunswick in 2005. In 2010, Eastlink launched another service in cooperation with other providers and

3540-541: Was the focus of the Reesor Siding 1963 Strike , which saw three union workers killed. In 1997 Tembec became the sole owner of the mill which is now known as Tembec — Spruce Falls Operations. The Kapuskasing Inn was built in 1927–28 by George Roper Gouinlock, son of George Wallace Gouinlock , together with the Civic Centre (built 1928) and the former Sensenbrenner Hospital (built 1929, now Drury Place,

3600-531: Was their duty to try to get away and our duty to prevent it. The ingenuity that they displayed in their attempts to escape was being duplicated by our men in German captivity." A small cemetery is all that remains of the internment camp near the Kapuskasing Airport where victims of the 1918 influenza epidemic were laid to rest. An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected by the province to commemorate

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