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) The combined wakes of the two steamers had, it was charged, so rocked the freighter "Arabla", which had been moored at the flour mills, that the cable holding "Arabia" to the pier had parted, and it was only with two hours of effort that the ship was kept from floating downriver. Both steamer captains were released on $50 bail. On October 8, 1905, "Telephone" readily beat "Charles R. Spencer" on in a race to Cascade Locks, with "Telephone" arriving seven minutes ahead of "Spencer". The two boats did not race in the Willamette however. In November 1905, "Telephone" and two