CBC and Radio Canada International Service - History from:
Canada Handbook 1948; Ministry of Trade and Commerce; Canada.
“On February 9 1932, the Judicial Committee of the Imperial
Privy Council, to whom the matter had been reported, ruled that
the control and regulation of radio-communication rested within
the jurisdiction of the Dominion Parliament. “The nucleus of a
nationally owned system was secured in 1933 on the acquisition
and operation by the Commission of three stations of the
Canadian National Railways at Moncton, Ottawa and Vancouver [A
note on the CNR: These stations had provided music, news and
other content to Canadian National Railways passenger trains for
the entertainment of passengers … in special headphone-equipped
radio lounge areas of the moving passenger cars]. “At April 7
1947 there were operating in Canada 33 shortwave broadcasting
stations, of which 25 were Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
stations and eight privately owned stations. “Shortwave
receiving stations are maintained at D