If the telephone wasn’t born in Canada, it was certainly conceived here. In 1874, in Brantford, Ontario, inventor Alexander Graham Bell first described the scientific principle that would convey the human voice over wires. By the Second World War, Canadians led the world in talking by telephone. Later they reached out to each other and around the globe with long distance calling, transatlantic connections and predictions for the future. Read the online features, watch television clips (including “Telephones go transatlantic” originally broadcast on January 14, 1957) and listen to numerous historical radio clips at the CBC Digital Archives.
