Pacific Cable Station Fiji, Fanning Island, and Vancouver. A branch connected to New Zealand. Since cartographers of the day traditionally coloured member countries of the British Empire in red, the route became known as the All Red Route. Cable laying started in 1902 with two ships, Anglica and Colonia. They began laying cable from Bamfield, Vancouver Island, Canada, to Fanning Island, Suva, Norfolk Island and Southport, Queensland, Australia. Colonia, built specifically for the project, laid cable from Vancouver Island to Fanning Island in the mid-Pacific. Anglia laid cable from Southport to Norfolk Island, Fiji, New Zealand and Fanning Island. The Cable Station landfall
Telephone (sternwheeler) after 1899, when it carried some troops from Vancouver, Washington to Portland in a little more than an hour. As of June 1902, "Telephone No. 2" had not been in use for several years, and had been lying at the foot of Jefferson Street in Portland, where one John Stewart was the watchman on the steamer. In January 1903, it was reported that "Telephone No. 2" would be “practically rebuilt” to assist the other boats of the White Collar line during the summer season. In 1903, a newly-formed steamboat concern, Arrow Navigation Co., acquired "Telephone No. 2" and had the