Obituary: Canada's original cable pioneer, Ed Jarmain, 99

LONDON – Ed Jarmain, the man widely considered to be the first to bring cable television to Canada died yesterday. He was 99. Born and raised in London, Ont., Jarmain originally ran his father’s dry cleaning business in the city in the 1930s through the ’60s. In the 1950s, however, as one of the first families in London with a TV set, he suffered through spotty reception from U.S. signals (there were no local broadcasters at the time). As an engineer, he thought there must be a better way to get these signals. After reading about cable and then visiting...