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
City Opera of Vancouver unimpressed. "Missing", City Opera Vancouver's third commission, premiered on 3 November at the York Theatre in Vancouver. After a five-performance run, the opera moved Victoria, the home of Pacific Opera who co-commissioned the work, and ran until 26 November. A chamber opera composed by Brian Current to a libretto by Marie Clements, "Missing" explores how the murders and unexplained disappearances of at least 18 women along the Highway of Tears and over a thousand Canada-wide, most of them Indigenous, affected the people in their lives. The Vancouver premiere of this "bizarre operatic thriller" was given by City Opera Vancouver in