Mr. Stanley himself hiked up Chamcook Mountain near the Canada/US border to scout transmission sites as part of the early effort to build out cable service for the Saint John market.
Another notable investment, in partnership with Sasktel, was the acquisition in 1991 of Midlands Cable of the United Kingdom, which served over 336,000 subscribers in the Leicester and Loughborough areas.
NCA Microelectronics was initially formed in 1987 by Harvey Nickerson and Lewis Cobb, two young electrical engineering graduates of the University of New Brunswick.
This experiment came to a tragic end after the Government of Canada ordered the slaughter of 4000 animals after a Professor of Agriculture at UNB raised concerns of a possible parasite in the New Zealand Red Deer that Fundy had imported for the purposes of starting a massive breeding operation with the goal of popularizing venison.
Operating under the assumption that such a parasite could infect the indigenous deer population, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency brought in a mobile abattoir and culled the herd.
No parasites were ultimately discovered, leading to a lawsuit between Lloyd's of London, as the insurer of Fundy Deer Farms, and the Government of Canada.
One notable legacy of Bill Stanley was that he learned the name of every single employee he met- of which there were thousands over the years- and continued to greet everyone by name over the course of many years.