C1-AR 1925 Canada

Operator: John Joseph Fassett who held the callsign 1AR/c1AR/VE1AR.
"Old Joe" was the first licensed amateur radio operator in the province of Nova Scotia in Canada.
|He resided in Woodside near Dartmouth and had quite the station.
In 1925 he won the Murphy Radio Cup, a trophy open to Maritime members of the ARRL.
|Also, he was internationally recognized for relaying telegraph messages from Nova Scotia to New York when the Titanic sank in 1912.

QSL K8CX Collection
1925 clip from The Times Dispatch 1/3/1926 courtesy of N2BTD
1926 clip from The Ottawa Citizen, 1/11/1926 courtesy of N2BTD
1927 clip from MacLean's Magazine, 2/15/1927 courtesy of N2BTD
1956 clip from The Windsor Star, 3/9/1956 courtesy of N2BTD