Photograph of Thelma Furlong who had been an agent for the exchange since 1949 was presented with an inscribed silver tray from Burpee Meisner district traffict supervisor in appreciation of her years of dedication. Official DDD and dial exchange ceremonies were held in Port Dufferin Masonic Hall on July 19.
Photograph of (back) unidentified person, unidentified person, B. Wournell, Bill Baker, unidentified person, Harry Worsley, Bill Bevans, (front) Jordan Convey, Don Quinn, S.E. Frederick, and H.A. Duncan.
Photograph of (back) R. Clements, manager Guy Umlah, Rod MacDonald, Max Hutt, Roy Worth, Murray Cooper, Roland Crozier, Earl Josey, coach Fred Turpin, (front) Ted Pickrem, Harry Dacy, unknown female, Duke Gardner, Karl Hoare and Howard Hartnett.
Photograph of (back) John Sinclair, Percy Kenney, George Moore, Gerald Ray, Don Bowlby, John Marshall. (front) Allan Marshall, Laurie Bent, Lawrence Crouse, Bruce Carroll, Cecil Ormiston and Roger Beckwith.
Photograph of Sandra MacDonald in chair with William MacEachern pulling chair back. Mrs. MacDonald retired as telephone agent effective with dial conversion in Port Hood, Cape Breton.
Photograph of Dr. Raye Billard local manager in Yarmouth chatting with Gertrude Warren a former local agent in Sandy Cover who worked for there for over 22 years.
Photograph of Struan Robertson on the right presenting clock to retiring president A. Gordon Archibald on the left. Doxens of senior and long-term employees and spouses rounded off a pleasant evening in late January at the Hotel Nova Scotian by applauding the presentation of an 18th centure clock to Archibald.
Photograph of Frank and June Jeffrey on the left with Strauan Robertson on the extreme right. Mr and Mrs. Jeffrey operated the telephone agency in the community between 1969 and 1976.
Photograph of students from the J.L. Ilsley High School in Spryfield had the chance to see first hand Maritime Telephone and Telegraph's newest "electronic switching" centre which cut into service on February 28th. Approximately 250 grades 11 and 12 students were taken on a tour March 2-3. Tod Slaney on the extreme left in the foreground of B.I.S. one of the five tour guides point out some of the special features.
Photograph of supervisor of Yellow Pages Jim Primrose standing and method analyst High Wilson look over projected sales for the comming year. In the background is a 1974 display showing the 12 Yellow Page marketing section and circulation for that year.
Photograph of the first large electronic hotel/motel system in Canada was cutover at the Citadel Inn in Halifax on November 24th. The system a GTD-100 Electronic Private Automatic Branch Exchange was manufactured by G.T.E. Automatic Electric.
Photograph of (seated) Ella Burke, Sylvia Hunt, Mary Chisolm, Margaret Sharpe, Kitty Baldwin, Dot Dee, Ruby White, Helen Crouse, Kitty Killum, Aggie Andrews, Theresa Rodgers, Marg Baddell, Min Anderson. Supervisors standing are Marie Murphy, Annie Valentine, with chief operator Miss Fahie on the extreme right and Blanche Mader clerk who is second from the right.
Photograph of Ivan E.H. Duvar shaking hands with Eldron Thompson at the first meeting of the Trans Canada Telephone System board of management following Island Tel's membership.
Photograph of D.N. Braid, J.A. MacDonald, G.D. Robb, J.G. Grant, A. MacLean, R.A. Sparling, F.R. Burbidge, J.J. MacDonald, W.A. Robertson, J.A. Dickie and C.E. Johnson
Photograph of Cecil Hawkins general supervisor of rates and development, Phil henderson general cor. development manager and Errol Flinn general supervision in the corporate planning.
