Marconi National Historic Site of Canada

Learning Experiences

Marconi National Historic Site of Canada
© Parks Canada / Morrison Powell, 2002

The site consists of the Visitor Centre and the remains of the original Table Head station. All texts are in English, French and Italian. Guides are available to help you enjoy your visit. Let them know if you need special assistance. Feel free to ask them all your questions!

• See a detailed model of the original Table Head station.

• See a "spark gap transmitter" and "magnetic detector" similar to those used by Marconi in his original wireless transmissions.

• Find out about Marconi's role in the birth of ground-to-air transmission.

• Watch volunteer radio operators send and receive messages from all over the world. Station VA1 VAS, an amateur radio station operated by members of the Sydney Amateur Radio Club, frequently operates from the site. The call letters "VAS" stand for "Voice of the Atlantic Seaboard," the original code letters of Guglielmo Marconi's commercial ship-to-shore wireless service.

  
  Marconi National Historic Site of Canada
  © Parks Canada / Morrison Powell, 2002

• Discover the accomplishments of ten great pioneers of telecommunications in the Wireless Hall of Fame.

• See the remains of the concrete foundations where the station's four 64-m (210-ft.) aerial towers and transmitters buildings stood.

• Drive the Marconi Trail, Route 255 and see wilderness coast with its outcropping of coal. Visit small, picturesque fishing ports, and see two other sites related to Marconi's life and work.