Cable guys lead 2009 Telecom Hall laureate class to be honored Wednesday

OTTAWA – Videotron founder André Chagnon and one of the engineers who helped wire much of Canada with co-axial cable, Israel (Sruki) Switzer, are two of the five members of the 2009 class of inductees into the Canadian Telecom Hall of Fame and will be honoured Wednesday in Gatineau at the Canadian Museum of Civlization.Chagnon will be inducted as a “business visionary and builder,” while Switzer (whose wife Phyllis was one of the founders of Citytv, and son Jay helmed CHUM Ltd. for many years) will go in as a cable technology pioneer and advocate. The other inductees are: the...