Sympatico goes MSN

[James Knott]

Duncan MacGregor wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 June 2004 06:52 am, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>David Colebatch wrote:
> 
> 
>>I pay $40.50 (CDN) per month for that.  Canada has always had a good
>>communications system.  In fact the first "long distance" call took
>>place here, in an experiment by A.G. Bell. 
> 
> 
> The first long distance call was performed between Toronto and Hamilton
> by Abner Rosebrugh, using telegraph lines for the purpose. Abner Rosebrugh 
> owned the first telephone company in Toronto (The Toronto Telephone Dispatch 
> Company). He held patents in telephony and ultimately sold his company to 
> Bell. 

I'd never heard of him, until today and his bio says he developed a 
method of transmitting voice & telegraph over the same wires.  It 
doesn't mention anything about a first long distance call.  Bell's call 
was from Brantford to Paris Ontario on Aug 10, 1878.
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