Recent content by Dianne

attached is what is believed to be the 1893 pay station page of the telephone book (it has a question mark beside date)

I just noticed the Bell Telephone book listings for Bastien's boat house all say "the bay", not "beach" as they do for John Hughes and the Ocean House. attached are pages from 1891 and 1892

Re: The Telephone History of Hamilton I don't know how I missed this post... excellent information! do you know what the source was for this article? there seems to be a big difference between the first telephone pay station, the first telephone exchange and the first telephone, and the Bell...

very interesting... so wealthier citizens may have "donated" use of their phones for some public services. I wonder whether John Hughes was the engineer with a residence line? attached is an 1898 map marking H.L. Bastien's boat house, but I cannot locate a mention of John Hughes.

I believe this is the Keeper's Cottage in the foreground in the other location. the 2nd picture shows the original tracks to the right. the 3rd picture was marked 1890

thank you, Scott thank you for uploading the .pdf and thank you for sending me the high res. photo of the keeper's cottage and sign from the archives, Scott... that's an awesome picture! I can kind of make out who I think is Queen Victoria on the flag and the dates which look like 1837-1897...

Reply to Scott thank you for the information about H.L. Bastien. do you know of a map that marks his location and also the location of John Hughes? do you have any information about John Hughes or a picture of Capt. Campbell? I ordered an enlargement of the archives photo so hopefully it will...

Bell Telephone I own the Bell Telephone Co. sign in the Canada Archives photo (if you zoom in you will see a sign that says "Bell Telephone Co." on the left of the photo)...