Communication museum for Canada

While there are rare and valuable collections of telegraph, telephone, and radio historical apparatus in the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C.; Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.; Science Museum, New York, N. Y.; and the new museum in Chicago, Ill., it was found that no historical museum had been established in Canada. To remedy this situation Donald McNicol (A´05, F´18), past-president of the Institute of Radio Engineers, gathered and procured through purchase several private collections in the United States and Canada. These he has donated to Canadian communication engineers in the form of a museum which is housed in Ottawa. At present the telegraph and telephone items are housed in the Dominion archives department, and the radio items in the National Research Building, but shortly the collections are to be consolidated in the latter building.