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
Media in Vancouver the same size; Vancouver has 3.5 million people to Seattle's 4.6 million. KCTS, in particular, relies significantly on viewership from Vancouver; it has been carried on cable systems across southwestern British Columbia for the better part of four decades. Vancouver has some of the most concentrated media ownership in all of Canada. "The Vancouver Sun", "The Province", the "National Post", and 12 community newspapers are all owned by Postmedia Network. Partly in response to that concentration, a group of journalists — many of them ex-"Sun" employees — started up an online news publication, "The Tyee", that posts news and opinion