Canada's First Telephone Business Office, 1877 Plaque
Description
- Creator
- the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board, Department of Public Records and Archives Canada
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Plaques
- Description
- Plaque at the site of the first telephone business office in Canada, located at 94 Tutela Heights Rd, Brantford, Ontario.
- Inscriptions
- Canada's First Telephone Business Office
1877
In 1877 this house, then located in downtown Brantford, became Canada's first telephone business office. It was the residence of the Reverend Thomas Philip Henderson (1816-1887), a former Baptist minister and school inspector in Paris, Ontario, who in 1870 had encouraged the Bell family to come to Brantford. In 1877 he retired from the ministry to become the first General Agent for the telephone business in Canada and played a significant role in its establishment and development. Henderson used this house as his office until 1880, when he joined the newly-formed Bell Canada in Montreal as Purchasing Agent and Storekeeper. - Place of Publication
- Brantford
- Date of Original
- 2020
- Date Of Event
- 1877
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Brantford Public LibraryEmail:b4@brantfordlibrary.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:173 Colborne St.
Brantford, ON N3T 2G8
