Bell Canada owner of several Toronto professional sports franchises. BCE ranked number 262 on the 2011 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list. Historically, Bell Canada has been one of Canada's most important and most powerful companies and, in 1975, was listed as the fifth largest in the country. The company is named after the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, who also co-founded Bell Telephone Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Bell Canada operated as the Canadian subsidiary of the Bell System from 1880 to 1975. However, unlike the other regional Bell operating companies, Bell Canada had its own research and development
Canadian Parliamentary Motion on Alexander Graham Bell the parliamentary Bell motion and the congressional Meucci resolution, first commented on Bell's record as an inventor and scientist: Professor Catania later went on to note the straightforwardness of the follow-up parliamentary motion compared to the seaminess of the initial congressional resolution: However, intellectual property law author R.B. Rockman was more critical in his view of HRes 269. After first reviewing the essential details of "American Bell Telephone Company v. Globe Telephone Company, Antonio Meucci, et al." (31 Fed 728 (SDNY, 1887)), where he noted major inconsistencies in Meucci's various testimonies, the paucity of direct evidence that both the Globe