Many more could have been rescued if the wireless operator on the California had not gone off duty earlier that night, a ship that was closer in proximity to the Titanic . In addition to the safety aspects of radio, industry saw the educational and entertainment value. Radio broadcasting into North American homes developed in 1919. Marconi opened the first Canadian radio station in Montreal while a Westinghouse engineer Frank Conrad of Pittsburgh began broadcasting as a hobby from his garage. In an era of growing urban centres and sprawled rural areas, radio brought North Americans culturally together for the first time.
Radio continues to keep people in touch with their neighbours all over the world.
Cajuns' began as the Acadians in Nova Scotia, Canada that due to their French ancestry were exiled from Canada in 1755 during Le Grand Derangement . More than 15,000 of them moved south into Louisiana which was owned by France. Through dialect differences the name changed from Acadian to Cajun, but the culture remained. In Search of Our Acadian Roots is the first CD Rom of its kind and size to include these immigrants and their many descendents. A built-in search and seek software program enables researchers to easily trace their roots.