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Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds Series
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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.

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.

Maps and Plans

Series contains maps of mutual telephone companies telephone lines purchased by MT&T, exchange maps, toll route plans, technical drawings of equipment, including switchboards, aerial cables, telephone circuits, and other material.

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.

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.

Personnel

Series contains agreements with local unions, constitutions, and records pertaining to MT&T’s employees, including: employee booklets, employee military records, employee handbooks, lists of employees, and employee benefit plans.