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8 unusual facts about Bell Canada


Area codes 610 and 484

This left 610 as the last teletypewriter area code, which outlived the others because it was controlled by Bell Canada and therefore not directly affected by AT&T's exit from teletype.

Claude Mongeau

Before joining CN, Claude Mongeau was a partner with Groupe Secor, a Montreal-based management consulting firm providing strategic advice to large Canadian corporations such as Bombardier and Bell Canada.

Early 2000s recession

For much of the 1990s the rapid rise of the TSX had almost wholly been attributed to two stocks: Nortel and BCE.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company

International voice traffic is carried for GT&T by Verizon; international collect calling is provided through agreements with AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Call Home Telecom, Bell Canada, Telus and British Telecom.

Independent telephone company

In Canada, Bell Canada has a dominant position as a local service provider, particularly east of Manitoba and in the Northern territories, and many of the independent telephone companies are in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.

Laurent Paquin

He also worked on commercials for Bell Canada, where he is the voice of the beaver named Bertrand.

Little Cornwallis Island

During the operating lifetime of the mine, there was a company-owned camp to provide lodgings to miners, and the community and mine was serviced by Bell Canada and then by Northwestel.

Pioneers, a Volunteer Network

Attending the formal ceremony were Bell's daughter, Mrs. Gillbert Grosvenor, Frederick Johnson, President of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada, T.N. Lacy, President of the Telephone Pioneers, and Brantford Mayor Walter J. Dowden.


2Wire

The 2Wire HomePortal residential gateways were distributed by broadband service providers such as AT&T, Embarq, and Qwest in the United States, Bell in Canada, Telmex in Mexico, BT Group in the United Kingdom, Telstra in Australia and SingTel in Singapore.

65th Grey Cup

"By game day, a bunch of guys settled on using steel cleats. Before the warm-up, I noticed a guy from Bell Canada walking by with a staple gun. A light bulb went on. 'I've tried everything, but not that.' So I tried putting staples in my shoes. I stapled an 'X' on about six bumps. Gordon Judges and Chuck Zapiec put some in, too. We looked at each other and said, 'That's it.'"

Cameron Hughes

In addition to cheering, Cameron is an active public speaker, speaking at high schools, colleges and corporations, such as Bell Canada, Eli Lilly and Company, ConocoPhillips, and Labatt.

CBC Hamilton

Moreover, the availability of open radio frequencies in the Toronto-Hamilton region is extremely limited; in the wake of Bell Canada's attempts to acquire Astral Media, Hamilton Councillor Brian McHattie called for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to require that the combined company divest a station to the CBC so it can have access to a radio station serving Hamilton.

Cordell Barker

He has worked on commercial campaigns for entities such as Coca-Cola, Bell Canada, Lors, Nike, and the Government of Canada.

Joseph-Rosaire Thibaudeau

Thibaudeau was a member of the first Board of directors, Bell Telephone Company of Canada (Bell Canada)in 1880, and Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company Limited (Nortel).

MLS on TSN

Games that are not covered under national broadcast contracts with MLS or other competition organizers are divided evenly between the two broadcasters, pursuant to agreements between their parent companies (Bell Canada and Rogers Communications respectively) in connection to their joint 2011 purchase of MLSE.

Toronto FC regional games are currently split between the TSN and Sportsnet families of networks (their parent companies, Rogers Communications and Bell Canada, jointly own a stake in TFC's parent company).

Têtes à claques

On February 1, 2007, Têtes à claques announced a partnership with Bell Canada to provide videos and other media on Bell Mobility, Sympatico and Bell TV services.

Toll-free number portability

Each exchange prefix in the +1-800 area code was assigned to a specific carrier in a specific region (for instance, +1-800-387 was Bell Canada in Toronto) and the numbers were brought to subscribers (usually large companies or governmental organisations) on special fixed-rate inbound trunks.

Trans Canada Microwave

The system was implemented under Bell Canada president Thomas Wardrope Eadie as an all-Canadian microwave network for transporting telephone conversations, Teletype messages and television signals.


see also

Area codes 613 and 343

Also served by area code 613 and Bell Canada is Saint Regis, Quebec, a native reservation bordering Fort Covington, New York which straddles the Ontario-Québec-New York border.

Skyscrapers of Windsor, Ontario

The Bell Canada Building is an Art Deco structure located in Downtown Windsor, at 1149 Goyeau Street.