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	Bell Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since the early years of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd., it was known colloquially as "The Bell" or "Bell Canada." On 7 March 1968 Canadian law renamed The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Ltd. as Bell Canada.
		British Columbia, served today by Telus, was served by numerous small companies that mostly amalgamated to form BC Tel (the last known acquisition was the Okanagan Telephone Company in the late 1970s), which served the province from the 1960s until sale to Telus.
		Bell Canada sold its 22 exchanges in the eastern region of the NWT to NorthwesTel in 1992, and BCE transferred ownership of the company to Bell Canada in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bell_Canada (1452 words)

	Bell Canada Enterprises Inc
		BCE Inc (formerly Bell Canada Enterprises Inc), is a transnational holding company whose subsidiaries operate primarily in the fields of Canadian telecommunications, directories, telecommunications manufacturing, and research and development.
		Bell Canada, now a wholly-owned subsidiary telephone company, still accounts for about 40% of the holding company's revenues and for between 60 and 65% of its profits.
		Bell Canada is poised to enter the CABLE TELEVISION industry on account of the federal government's new policy on "convergence." Should this take place, Bell's entry will erase an enduring policy whereby the company and its affiliates have been precluded from holding broadcasting (including cable TV) licenses.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0000662 (304 words)

	bell canada telephone
		Bell Canada was established in 1880 by Charles Fleetford Sise, a former sea captain who was an agent of the Bell Telephone Company in the United States.
		Bell Canada and Telus, the two major incumbents north of the border, own most of the, Is this feeding Bell Canada and Telus to the dogs, so to spea.
		Bell Canada has also discovered that the pay phone is a convenient way to, In a pilot program that will run until sometime this spring, Bell Canada is. Bell Canada provides local telephone, long distance, wireless communications, Bell Canada operates primarily as the incumbent telephone company in.
	www.telenirs.com /calls/bell_canada_telephone.shtml (2145 words)

	Bell Canada
		This historic document was printed by the British American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a globe between an allegorical man and woman, with an underprint of the Famous Bell Logo.
		He was key to the establishment and development of the telephone in Canada and is considered the founder of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, incorporated by Federal charter on April 29, 1880.
		Bell Canada is Canada's national leader for communications in the Internet world, provides connectivity to residential and business customers through wired and wireless voice and data communications, high speed and wireless Internet access, IP-broadband services, e-business solutions, local and long distance phone and directory services.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,bell-canada,337501.html (425 words)

	BCE :: History
		The telephone of Melville's era was constructed of wood in the shape of a box or a butter stamp.
		Bell were eager to join their son in Washington, D.C. Potential Canadian purchasers declined, considering the venture either too risky or too expensive.
		Throughout the year, he worked tirelessly to establish and develop the telephone industry in Canada and is acknowledged as the founder of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, incorporated by federal charter on April 29, 1880.
	www.bce.ca /en/aboutbce/history/index.php (1337 words)

	Historical Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bell asked to be buried in the countryside where he had spent the major portion of the last thirty-five years of his life.
		Bell went abroad the last time two years ago, paying a farewell visit to his native Edinburgh, and returning to say that he had found himself a stranger in a strange land, and that he was glad to get back to America, where he had lived most of his life.
		The American Bell Telephone Company, having failed to obtain a change in the 11 U. patent laws, saw their hopes of monopoly fading and even more so as patent infringement cases were being lost daily in the courts through the legal efforts of the many independent manufacturers.
	telephonetribute.com /historical_information.html (3150 words)

	Western Libraries - Business Library
		A contract with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company places at the Bell Telephone Company's disposal the complete range of telephone developments achieved by the practical experience of Bell System operating companies, and by the research of the world: famed Bell Telephone Laboratories in the United States.
		The company provides for its employees a well-rounded security program, comprising a plan for pensions and for sickness, accident and death benefits financed entirely by the company.
		Its total telephones represent 33.8 per hundred population, and residence service is in use in 85 out of every 100 households in the company's territory.
	www.lib.uwo.ca /business/cr-bell.htm (788 words)

	Bell Telephone Company of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bell Canada and its nine operating subsidiaries serve most of the eastern half of Canada, together accounting for 70 per cent of Canada's 11.7 million telephones.
		Bell Canada's manufacturing subsidiary, Northern Electric, serves a substantial portion of the Canadian equipment market, and Bell Northern Research, held jointly by Bell Canada and Northern Electric, is the research and development arm for both companies.
		BC Telephone is the incumbent telco in British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada.
	www.bellsystemmemorial.com /canadian_bell_companies.html (4615 words)

	`Hello, Central?' Gender, Technology, and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems. by Christopher Armstrong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We are told that between 1890 and 1904 the Bell Telephone Company of Canada was `categorized as a public utility' (32), whatever that may mean, only to learn seven pages later that a 1902 charter change `defined' the company as a public utility.
		Bell Telephone's rates were subject to approval by the federal cabinet after 1892, but this proved utterly ineffective.
		But the historical evidence presented is overwhelmingly drawn from what Bell Telephone employees (male and female) and journalists (mainly male) wrote about the way in which subscribers used their instruments.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/743/gender4.html (857 words)

	Bell Telephone Company
		Bell agreed to provide but a few phones and no exchange, at what was considered a phenomenal price, for what was essentially a large party line.
		On 1 November 1887, the potential of the telephone in Alberta would be realized with what is considered to be the first truly long-distance call in the province: a 15-minute call via telegraph wires to Battleford, 490 kilometres from Edmonton.
		Bell’s negative influence was felt throughout Alberta, with the company continually relying on its charter and monopoly to install service where clearly it was not wanted by municipalities.
	www.abheritage.ca /telephone/era/bell_telephone.html (468 words)

	Sample Search Results for Alexander Graham Bell
		Keywords: invention telephone Bell to Marry Mabel 1875 Nov 25 Boston, Massachusetts Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 engaged to be married to Mabel Gardiner Hubbard 1857-1923.
		Keywords: invention telephone Bell Regent of Smithsonian 1898 Washington, DC Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 elected a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
		Keywords: invention telephone Bell Invents Tetrahedral Kite 1901 Washington, DC Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 invents the tetrahedral kite that winter, for testing at Baddeck, the kite's four rigid triangular sides made it lightweight and strong; origin of the hang glider.
	www.ottres.ca /tmach/research/results.html (4761 words)

	Nortel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bell patented his new invention in the United States in 1876, and in Canada in 1877, where 75 percent of the Canadian telephone patent was assigned to his father, Melville.
		And in 1880, the Bell Telephone Company of Canada was formed.
		It was owned 44 percent by Western Electric, which was the manufacturing subsidiary of ATandT Company of the United States, and the remainder by Bell of Canada.
	www.phone-place.com /nortel.htm (889 words)

	History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1880 - Dec 1889
		On this day, Melville Bell, brother of Alexander Graham Bell, incorporated The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, as Royal Assent was given to the Act authorizing the formation of the firm.
		Bell Telephone sold its telephone and telegraph operations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to the Nova Scotia Telephone Company.
		The land on which the road was built was never the property of the company, but was rented from the farmers at a yearly rental, and as the company had not much use for it, they came to the conclusion that it would be better to give it up than pay the heavy rents.
	www.littletechshoppe.com /ns1625/nshist12.html (6212 words)

	Privateline.com Telephone History: Page 7: 1921 to 1948
		The majority shareholder was the Bell Telephone Company of Canada." Thanks to Ken Lyons, Curator, Telecommunications Museum Telecommunications Museum,Maison des benevoles retraites, Nortel Retirees Club in Montreal, LaSalle, QC ITT's owners, the curious, conspiratorial Behn brothers, Sosthenes and Hernand, bought Western Electric International for 30 million dollars and renamed it International Standard Electric.
		Although telephones had been used in the White House for many years, the instrument did not reach the president's desk until the Hoover administration at the start of the Great Depression.
		The Bell System countered each point of the FCC's report in their 1938 Annual Report, however, it was clear the government was now closely looking at whether the Bell System's structure was good for America.
	www.privateline.com /TelephoneHistory3A/TeleHistory3A.htm (1717 words)

	Nova Scotia Telephone Companies
		The Bell Telephone Company of Canada was incorporated on 29 April 1880.
		On 28 November 1887, the Bell Telephone Company sold its telephone and telegraph operations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to the Nova Scotia Telephone Company.
		The New Cumberland Telephone Company is known to have been carrying on a telephone business in 1905 and 1906 — it appears as "Cumberland Telephone Company" in Winfield's list dated May 1905, and it was involved in a lawsuit in 1906.
	alts.net /ns1625/telephone.html (9547 words)

	Information Builders Magazine Vol.11 No.1 - Bell Canada Transforms Legacy Applications Into Sophisticated Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1900, the Bell Telephone Company of Canada introduced the first central energy switchboard, or common battery, which eliminated the need for customers to generate the power to make a call by turning a crank on the telephone.
		While the technology at Bell Canada has changed tremendously in the last 100 years, the defining principle of the company remains unchanged — to provide stellar customer service.
		Bell Canada has adapted rapidly to meet changing business conditions, especially through improved information technology.
	www.informationbuilders.com /new/magazine/v11-1/bell_can.html (1416 words)

	Bell Canada Transforms Legacy Applications Into Sophisticated Business Intelligence Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While the technology at Bell Canada has changed tremendously in the last 100 years, the defining principle of the company remains unchanged: to provide stellar customer service.
		Today Bell Canada provides a full range of communications services to more than 8 million residential and business customers in Canada – including local and long-distance telephone service (both wireline and wireless), Internet access and high-speed data services, and satellite communications, among others.
		The Change Management application was strategic for Bell Canada, Chadwick maintains, protecting more than $1 billion in revenues with major accounts, and crucial in fending off intense competition.
	www.informationbuilders.com /applications/bell_can.html (1412 words)

	Newfoundland Project, Appendix 4
		The field telephones were installed primarily to protect our personnel while working along the track and speeder operators are to have priority in their use.
		Any telephone operator receiving a message that a train or speeder has passed an adjacent camp shall relay the information to the camp ahead.
		Telephone operators should listen in when speeder operators are talking to an adjacent camp.
	www3.telus.net /alberta403/newfoundlandproject/Appendix4.htm (568 words)

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		Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Toronto Division, and Plant Engineering, 1949, Existing Bell Telephone underground cable and conduit, [downtown Toronto]: Toronto, Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Toronto Division, Plant Engineering, 1 map [map].
		Canada Atlas Company, 1932, CANATCO house index map of Toronto and environs: Toronto, Canada Atlas Company, 1 map on sheets [map].
		Map Company, Jewell, Harry, and Map Specialty Co, 1910?, Road map of Toronto and Environs: S.l., Map Company and the Map Specialty Company, 1 map [map].
	prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090 /maplib/gta/cartobibliography.html (4009 words)

	Bell to remove old phones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One year ago the 44-year-old Fort Frances municipal telephone system was taken over by The Bell Telephone Company of Canada.
		Telephone subscribers will begin using their new telephones and new telephone systems after that date.
		Almost immediately, Bell Canada employees will begin the final phase of the cut-over operations-the removal of unwanted telephones and telephone lines.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /frances/bellphones.html (129 words)

	Vincent, Marcel, Bell is Big Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The state of the Bell Company, letting the audience judge the part it plays in the state of the nation.
		The speaker's view that his company has an important role in the economic and social life of the country.
		A detailed description of the speaker's company: its size, its ability to meet service requirements of its customers, its growth, its operations, its current programmes to replace manual telephone service with automatic dial service, etc. Modernization expenditures.
	www.empireclubfoundation.com /details.asp?SpeechID=868 (256 words)

	Ken Gordon's Bell Canada Installation/Repair Van Website
		This vehicle was used by telephone installers and cable repairmen.
		The body was installed on the chassis and then delivered to the Telephone Company.
		This particular version of a universal telephone company repair van was used across Canada and the U.S.A. from the early 30's to the mid 1960's when it became more economical to purchase closed vans manufactured by the automobile companies.
	www3.sympatico.ca /kengordon3502 (394 words)

	SkillCircle: High Tech Snapshots
		A year later, the Manufacturing Branch of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada was born, eventually becoming the Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company Limited in 1895.
		With the introduction of the electronic telephone switch during the 1960s, Northern Electric and Bell Canada decided to combine their research and development divisions and get a jump start on the rapidly changing telecommunications market.
		Not to be thought of as a mere acquisition-crazed company, Nortel is spinning off Channelware Inc., to join the successful Entrust Technologies Inc. and Elastic Networks, which both began in development at Nortel.
	www.skillcircle.com /resources/profiles/853.html (1204 words)

	Bell Canada Act
		The works of the Company are hereby declared to be works for the general advantage of Canada.
		(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the Company in respect of another body corporate that was, on March 7, 1968, a subsidiary of the Company.
		(2) Except in the ordinary course of the business of the Company, no facilities of the Company that are integral and necessary for the carrying on of telecommunications activities shall be sold or otherwise disposed of, or leased or loaned, without the prior approval of the Commission.
	laws.justice.gc.ca /en/B-3.6/text.html (579 words)

	Newfoundland Project, Appendix 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This article refers to "The Newfoundland Project" and for reasons of security, "Canada" was substituted for "Newfoundland".
		The story is correct in a general way but not in some of the detail: e.g.
		at the peak of operations cable was being lashed and spliced at an average of ten miles per day rather than three to five miles per day; also a good deal of the outside plant engineering was undertaken by The Bell Telephone Company of Canada.
	www3.telus.net /alberta403/newfoundlandproject/Appendix1.htm (96 words)

	Noisy River Telephone Company - Ontario, Canada 1922
		In 1908, The Noisy River Telephone Company started their service in Dunedin and later moved to Creemore.
		The company was reorganized in 1950 and the name changed to Noisy River Telephone Ltd. The company updated equipment and in 1955 an automatic dial exchange was installed in the New Lowell area.
		The company was acquired by the Bell Canada Telephone Company in 1956.
	www.scripophily.net /noriteco19.html (510 words)

	Bell System Memorial - Main Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Permission is hereby granted for the use of my archives for classroom use, hobby use, historical collections, and other non-profit purposes so long as its use does not infringe on copyrights of others for such use.
		Bell System logos are still in use by and trademark property of several Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) in the USA such as BellSouth.
		The documents on this server are here to aid in the research of and education in telephone history, specifically the part in telephone history about the Bell System.
	www.bellsystemmemorial.com (517 words)

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