Bell Canada Alexander Graham Bell, providing stovepipe wire with which Bell conducted his early telephone experiments from his father's home in Tutelo Heights, Ontario, and also building some 2,398 telephones to Bell's specifications for the Canadian market until James Cowherd's untimely death from tuberculosis in 1881. With a government-granted monopoly on Canadian long-distance telephone service, The Bell Telephone Company of Canada was serving 237,000 subscribers by 1914. Since its early years The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Ltd. had been known colloquially as "The Bell" or "Bell Telephone". On March 7, 1968, Canadian federal legislation renamed The Bell Telephone Company of Canada,
George Alexander Bell In 1900, he moved to Saskatchewan to work as a Dominion lands inspector for the Estevan district. He settled in Estevan, Saskatchewan. Bell served in the provincial cabinet as Provincial Treasurer and Minister of Telephones. He played an important role in establishing the early telephone infrastructure in rural Saskatchewan. After resigning from the assembly in 1918, Bell served as chairman of the Local Government Board until 1926. He later was a director for the Anti-Tuberculosis League and was governor of the provincial sanatorium at Fort Qu'Appelle. Bell died in Regina at the age of 71. George Alexander Bell George Alexander