Archives Catalogue

Photograph of A, Sutherland, G. Tanner, C. Charlton, K. Crouse, A. Sarty, D. Penny, C. Simpson, J. Penny, A. Hannaford, H. Frank, (front row) H. Elliot, E. Beeler, R. Brewster, E. Leonard, R. Bollivan, F. Meisiner and M. Swinimer who all together had 215 years of safe driving.

Gary Alderdice engineering supervisor from disrict two outside plant was one of several supervisors jailed during the New Glasgow Kinsman Club fundraising drive called Jail your boss

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 23, Item 4
File
[1976?]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Gary Alderdice in jail with a guard taunting him.

Mrs. Alice Kendall former agent placed first call after dial and DDD services were brought to St. Ann's Bay Nova Scotia

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 23, Item 5
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Alice Kendall. Maritime Telephone and Telegraph invested more than 1/2 million dollars to bring dial and DDD services to 325 telephone customers.

Lloyd Tucker from apparatus and repair shop checks on of the 300 bread and butter sets that will go through the shop in a day at the office in Halifax Nova Scotia

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 23, Item 6
File
[1976?]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Lloyd Tucker at work.

Russell Deveau is polishing a telephone receiver on one of the five machines in the apparatus and repair shop designed to buff phones

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 23, Item 7
File
[1976?]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Russell Deveau at work.

Exchange conversion in Heatherton Nova Scotia

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 23, Item 8
File
December 22, 1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Graham Holman district supervisor, Minister of Education William Gillis making first official call to George Mitchell and Straun Robertson sitting at table. The official ceremonies marked the conversion of the Heatherton exchanghe to dial and were held in the Heatherton Catholic Church Hall on December 22, 1976. The call officially opened the half million dollar porject which went into service on December 20, providing DDD and extended area service between Heatherton and Antigonish and Heatherton and Monastery.

Wayne Hatt system analyst BIS displays the new cheque forms to be used by Maritime Telephone and Telegraph and Island Telephone

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 1
File
[1976?]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Wayne Hatt holding cheque print outs.

Cover of the Western area phonebook

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 10
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of cover of a phonebook.

Hector toastmasters

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 2
File
[1976?]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Bob Bishop marketing supervisor from Halifax on far right presents the club gavel to Hector Toastmaster's president Jim Doyle development assistant from New Glasgow. The remainder of the group is Ken Scott from the design group engineering, Don Barrett from central office plant, Jack Dicks from design group engineering, Helen Sutherland secretary engineering, and Alex Sutherland district supervisor installation and repair.

Hector toastmasters

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 3
File
[1976?]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Jim Doyle and Doug Gorvette president of the Truro area Cobequid Club display the banner which the latter presented to the Hector toastmaster.

Mipay system

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 4
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Terry Russell payroll records clerk keys in pertinent employee information on a computer terminal. The information will be stored in Maritime Telephone and Telegraph's IBM 370 computer as part of the Mipay system that went into effect on March 1, 1976.

Jack Dicks award master prepares to reward central office foreman Jack MacDonald for the dubious distinction of having the most "ahs" during his speech

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 5
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Jack Dicks holding award and Jack MacDonald.

Television operating centre

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 6
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Maritime Telephone and Telegraph broadcast foreman Bill Wilson on the left and network technician Dave Jacobs on the right monitor all television programming coming in through the consol at the Television Operation Centre.

Phyllis Holley, Sheryl Spindler and Lina MacCulloch commercial directory clerks check proofs of Yellow Pages ads and do the paste up for directory production

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 7
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of the three women at work.

Tom Faulkner from the Yellow pages Tell and sell has been toping sales since he began with Maritime Telephone and Telegraph

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 8
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Tom Faulkner at desk on telephone.

Jean Gizz artist who works in the Yellow pages places a line drawing in the graph arts camera

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 24, Item 9
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Jean Gizz at the Repromaster.

Special services storeroom

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 25, Item 1
File
[1976?]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of storeroom which houses hundred of thousands of dollars worth of equipment.

Peter Martin special services storekeeper unlocks the door of one of the special services trucks

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 25, Item 2
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Peter Martin unlocking truck.

Special services sign

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 25, Item 3
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of sign on the exterior of a building.

The Datec team in action

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 25, Item 4
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Chris Walker, Murray Alary supervisior of staff support and Ernie MacPherson engineering association check over ailing dataset.

Art Smith shows Chris Wheeler how to fix a portable mobile radio

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 25, Item 5
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of special services repairman Art Smith on the right showing Chris Wheeler how to fix portable mobile radio.

Special services engineer supervisor Dan Bower and engineer Lyn Bowser look over a Datacom 600 in the engineering lab

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 25, Item 6
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Dan Bower and Lyn Bowser at Datacam 600.

Service repairman ponder over a malfunctioning Datacom 400 in the data/teletype special services shop

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 25, Item 7
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Norm Mason special services repairman, foreman John Wood, supervisor Brendon Dempsey and Will White special service repaireman.

Heather DeYoung from the toll company with her show horse Honeydew and pony Double trouble

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 1
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Heather DeYoung feeding her horses.

N. Eisenhauer

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 10
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of N. Eisenhauer.

S. Terrior

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 11
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of S. Terrior

E. Hunter

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 12
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of E. Hunter.

J. MacDonald

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 13
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of J. MacDonald

Betty Wiswell celebrates milestone for twenty five years of service

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 14
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Betty Wiswell.

Joyce McNair celebrates twenty five years of service

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 15
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Joyce McNair.

Struan Robertson addressing guests at twenty five year dinner at the Lord Nelson hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 2
File
1976

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Struan Robertson giving speech to crowd.

Mrs. Mary MacLean private automatic branch exchange advisor discusses the new automatic dial system at Sydney Works with Mrs. Laura Mombourquette telephone supervisor in the general office

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 3
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of Mary MacLean and Laura Mombourquette at the new dial system.

Officials and guests gather to honour retiring manager of the Island Telephone Company

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 4
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of D.M. Gass, J.E. Richardson president, F. Walter Hyndman Lieutenant Governor, A.M. MacKay director, Judge C. St. Clare Trainor chairman of the public utlities commission.

D.M. Gass retirement from Island Telephone Company

MS-4-180, Box 10, Folder 26, Item 5
File
[19--]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of J.E. Richardson president, general traffic manager W.S. Dickie, W.A. Logan chief engineer, A.G. Archibald general manager, A.H. MacKinnon general plant manger, general commercial manager D.W. Myers and A.M. MacKay director.

Cable truck maintenance crew