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Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company historical photograph collection

Deries consists of photographs created and collected by the Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company Limited. Photographs from the Nova Scotia Telegraph Company, Island Telephone Company and local exchanges across Nova Scotia are also included. Photographs cover the history of Maritime telephone companies predominantly Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Photographs consist of company employees, telephone switchboards and equipment, operators at switchboards, company sports teams, company events and picnics, line crews repairing and building lines, microwave equipment and antennas, scenery of Halifax, Dartmouth and many smaller towns across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, company crew aiding in the rescue efforts at Moose River Gold Mines, the Sydney-Louisbourg Railway, the Telephone Association of Canada and the Telephone Pioneers Association members.

The first subseries includes subject and individual index cards for the photograph collection. Additional subseries include: Alexander Graham Bell ; Buildings ; Company Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Board of Directors ; Conventions, Company Events and Holidays ; Courses and Training ; Dial Conversion, Cutover and Extended Service ; Equipment and Vehicles ; Fundraising ; Glass Plate Negatives ; Island Telephone Company ; Landscape and Street Scenes ; Local Railways ; Marketing ; Non Company Events ; Operation and Line Crews ; Other People ; Slides ; Sports Events and Teams ; Staff ; Telephone Association of Canada ; and Telephone Pioneers Association.

Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

  • MS-4-180
  • Fonds
  • 1880 - 2013, predominant 1900 - 2013
Fonds contains records documenting the history and functions of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Limited. Materials include administrative, financial and personnel records, as well as directories, blueprints, manuals, public relations and advertising materials and photographs.

Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company Limited

Connecting Company Original Records

Series contains records from the following telephone companies: Telephone Company of Prince Edward Island, the Valley Telephone Company, Yarmouth Amalgamated Telephone Company, Barrington Township Telephone Company, and Westport and Digby Telephone Company. Records include annual statements, directories, ledgers, and minute books.

Operations

Series contains construction estimates, job specifications, work orders, foreman reports, job registers, estimates, routine orders, toll pole line specifications, transmission investigation reports, plant budget schedules, plant budget recommendations, budget estimates, working schedules, reports of connecting line additions and removals and directory supervisor order, and correspondence with exchange agents.

Administration

Series contains administrative created by Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company. Series includes Public Utility Board orders, correspondence with connecting companies, resolutions, petitions, notices, reports, statistics, development studies, surveys, and purchase records.

Nova Scotia telephone directory for Halifax, Dartmouth, and Amherst - 1900-1906

File consists of a compilation of directories for the Nova Scotia Telephone Company that are bound together. Its contents include the directory of subscribers for Halifax and Dartmouth May 1900, corrections and additions to the subscribers directory of June 1905, the list of subscribers for Halifax and Dartmouth 1905, the subscriber directory for Amherst, N.S. for 1906,and the June 1906 official telephone directory for the city of Halifax, Dartmouth and Suburbs.

Removing terminal pole by head office looking North on Hollis Street in Halifax Nova Scotia

Photograph of J.J. Morrow, C. Romo and J. Martin. Write up with photograph says, " "Charley" Removing the cable off the terminal pole by head office building reminded me of a photo I had of it and though perhaps other employees would like to [?]. It was taken in 1901. There are J.J. Morrow, C. Romo and J. Martin - Romo got in contact with a live wire and was killed some time after. - The 100 pr. 19 ga. cable we took out was larger than the 400 pr. we use now. The picture was taken looking North on Hollis Street. You can see Salter Street and the board fence and tree where the head office building is now. The Russell house stood back from the corner house which they claimed was framed in England and brough out and erected." - C. Peake, May 11th, 1934. C. Romo was killed March 13, 1902.
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