It is not known at this time what equiment was used in the Willow Bunch Telegraph Office. However, one can assume that it is something similar to the following:

Bunnell Grandfather Key (circa early 1880s)

Watt Sounder (circa mid 1870s)

The equipment would have been used to send and receive messages encoded into the dots and dashes of Morse Code as shown below:

Morse Code used on land lines in Canada and the United States (click image to enlarge)

The equipment in the Willow Bunch Telegraph Office would have been connected to Wood Mountain in a manner similar to the Moose Jaw to Regina diagram shown below which was found at the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw:

Telegraph Circuit for the Moose Jaw to Regina line (click image to enlarge).

The following map shows the path the telegraph line took from Willow Bunch Telegraph to Wood Mountain and Moose Jaw:

Telegraph Map