Once Upon a Time: Troops prevent attack on Tobermory wireless station

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Once Upon a Time: Troops prevent attack on Tobermory wireless station

At the start of the Great War, and convinced that Germany could attack Tobermory at any time, the government called in the troops. Their goal was to prevent enemy agents from sabotaging the radio equipment at the wireless telegraph station. The Tobermory wireless station was built in 1912 at North Point, known locally as Wireless Point. It was one in a chain of eight on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes. The others were at Kingston, Toronto I…