The dinner for participants in the October 17 events, held in the evening at the Italian Community Hall in Dominion, near Glace Bay.
Henry Bradford and Ita Kane-Wilson at the dinner. Ita was producing a documentary on the centenary events for Irish radio.
The centenary was celebrated in Clifden by an impressive schedule of events from October 12 to 17. The celebrations were opened officially by Minister Eamonn OÕCuiv and Princess Elettra, MarconiÕs daughter. Events included guided walks, lunchtime lectures, concerts of operatic music and traditional Irish, Italian, Canadian, American and reggae music, a ball, a vintage car rally, films and several exhibits.
Past Commemorative Events
Ribbon cutting at the opening of the interpretive centre at the Marconi National Historic Site at Table Head in Glace Bay in 1989. Left to right: K. Turnbull, Donald MacInnis (Mayor of Glace Bay), Judge Rene Martin (Marconi Celebration Trust), Gioia Marconi-Braga (Marconi's second daughter), Elmer MacKay (Member of Parliament), and John Buchanan (Premier of Nova Scotia). Also on this occasion, Premier Buchanan officially named the coastal road between Glace Bay and Louisbourg "the Marconi Trail".
— (Photo courtesy of Parks Canada)
Princess Elettra Marconi-Giovanelli, Marconi's daughter by his second marriage, with her son Guglielmo, talking with Dr. Mary K. MacLeod (left), while Margaret Glabay, owner of the Rockinghorse Inn in Sydney looks on. Princess Elettra and Guglielmo toured Sydney and Glace Bay in 1995. Dr. MacLeod is the author of the book "Whisper In The Air, Marconi, The Canada Years".
— (Photo: Cape Breton Post, Sydney)
The Italian naval ship Zeffiro visited Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1995 on a tour of east coast ports to celebrate the centennial of Marconi's demonstration of wireless communications in 1895. The Zeffiro carried an exhibit of photographs and artifacts of Marconi's early experiments.
Governor General of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson, inspects a kite used by Marconi to support the receiving aerial wire used in his transatlantic wireless experiment in 1901. Her visit was during the closing events at St. John's, Newfoundland, on December 12, 2001 of the centennial celebrations called "Receiving The World". Behind her are Roger Grimes, Premier of Newfoundland, and Patti Bannister of the Newfoundland Archives.
— (Photo: The Telegram, St. John's, Newfoundland)
Lieutenant Governor Myra Freeman (left) and Princess Elettra Marconi-Giovanelli, Marconi's daughter, admire a poster of a Canadian stamp commemorating the centennials of the first transatlantic wireless messages and the completion of the trans-Pacific telegraph cable. The stamp launching was held at the Cape Breton Miners Museum in Glace Bay, December 15, 2002.
— (Photo: Cape Breton Post, Sydney, Nova Scotia)
Bill Appleton of Sydney's amateur radio club transmits a commemorative message to Poldhu, Cornwall on December 15, 2002, one hundred years after Marconi's first official transatlantic wireless telegraph message.
— (Photo: Cape Breton Post, Sydney, Nova Scotia)
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