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Introduction Of Telephone Barrie Off To False peers the exhibition ever took place Thereisaoofhcisl record at its entaiion Later on file indicates that ten est Mr Dells invention was not onlmntly very met in board tbe3arrie area at this time his demonstraflou was typic al t1 the way the telephone and edit inventions of the on were introduced to the public They oltd took on titeasrterte ot fullfledged evening or afternoon entqtalnntent featuring speedi ucilationa and songs Barri action to the hihltion was also typical oi the Imu when maior inventions whi were in revolutionise life are introduced Marty looked on tile telephone withsuspirlonbtlters saw it an silentlth toy and still others tho htzit gimmickwhich no bod in his right mind would Divt ins stormommmrron Afmllor reorganisation of the telephone business tooir piece in lmfiwhna the Bell Telephone CompliLv oi Canada was tonn ed the instruments inventor hndLior some years been living in the Unittsi States and he was lolpti in im by his tether The telephone company in the Unit ed States formerly the National Bel eiephone Company chang ed ls name to the American Bel Telephone Company in two and shortly alter Its Canadian uhsldisry the Bell Telephone gouge oi Canada we fortn Sitfie that time Bell of Canada hastattsiaed its independence from the American company andsls now 951 per cent owned by Canadians Pfins tor linking Barrie to file outside world by telephone erls brewing in the early toms buttlt wasnt until 1385 that In return was established in the Simcoc community Amt at that time was it Douglas theiler on Dunlo St 11tat year long stance line wafi built from Newmarket to Barrie by of Bradford This inv ivod thc ingtng and mils on not it product vice Mr Douglas now carried in es E1 is is it 53 directory In toss the Examiner of cosine was one at them no body bothered to use them since it was much easier to ask for the party by name Central knew all the subscribers its well and did not need num to identh them no number of telephones in use gradually grew and by the aid of iron on telephones were in service The census taken year Inter hated Barriea popu lation at 3550 MollMM CHANGES By the turn oi the century two important changes had taken lace in Barries telephone eye First ogherngmmwere now leting you nanny ance of oldtime subscribers that calls be placed by number the other change distinct im provement was the implement ation oi continuous uhour ser the title oi local Manager The company was operating ltd telephones in Barrie by the end of 1900 Business had grown to such an extent that several operators were required to operate the awltchboards in the companys new uarters on Dunlop St it was so decided at this time to establish the position of chief operator First incumbent was Miss Annie Fair She was suc ceeded by Mrs Walter Dull who held the job from Ms to 1000 hlr Douglas was replaced as manager in 1901 by Mark tin who had been local manager in Lindsay report on theiiarrie com munity prepared in 1910 from telephonic point oi view re veall that there were 410 sub scribers served bi chiel oper ator two long lance operat on four al operators and Start with it me problem even or tel service As remit Borden an office was Hill ed there in 1918 ll helped to relieve the load on the Barrie office where is operatore 11 gees working htrtousiy nilht tob etbetraffictromiiar sis and Camp Border Oenkoperated teiwhonea dis peered irom Barrie in 1011 en the Dell placed its new Elizabeth St lnow Dunlap St exchange building in operatim From then on it was necessary 35 521 Eér 225 ii if gt 24 52 or merely to lift the receiver to signal the operator When the now arters were opened Barrie hn ll operators to provide telephone service for subscribers it is interesting to speculate in view of these ligures how operators would be aired Barrie to day to prov de service or 12 600 tele hones if the exchange were at 11 manuallyoperated The year 1020 brought with it the mouth tele hone in Barrie This was consi erad to be milestone in the communitys moth highlight of the later 1020s occurred when the second tele writer to be installed in Ont was placed in service in Barrie it was Installed in the office of Gordon Stevenson stock broker for the purpose oi handling stock quotations and messages of general charact er between Barrie and Toronto No years alter the disastrous stock crash of ma Barrie was community or 1773 people aer ved by 1995 telephones But the eliects of the Great Depression were such that the live tele phones needed to give Barrie its 200M telephone were not to be installed for another eight Years CUT OVER TO DIAL Even the war could not stop the marrh oi pro ess in Barrie and because of to list of vital industries and its proximity to Camp Borden the telephone system in Barrie was cut over to dial 1942 To mark MAURICE Pahrataos HEADQUARTERS FOR main tire truck transmitter in the fire hall and receiving sets In each of the as homes oi the firefighters the year Barrie marked its 100th aneiv 3531 MacDonald was pointed man ager Two years in the Dun ion St exchange building which was ed lihlill underwent ex ve alterations This building had been expand Ed in 1829 1N7 1N and 1347 The first expansion consisted oi an extension on the front The other three were additions to the rear of the building Construction at the wort cen tre on John St was the main item in the Bells construction program in Barrie during the 1050s it provided arking and maintenance facili on tor the companys vehicles in the Bar rie district as well as storage space for equipment The latest major move or the lieu Telephone Company in Bar rie took lace last month when the new teestory dial building am TELEPHONE opinion inns ltflti aahioewbnt once Dialing DDD was etiola auzuratcd enabling customers to dial their ethnicstat too long istaace calls to more then on on telephones with out operators assistance nise oi Barrie had its existing that system replaced with more modern and larger at notto mention thengnstrgttncteinob oi brandnew building An insight into the Mn which has laitm place ingmnrrie rover thsyears may be gained by comparing population and tele phoneineservlce figures In 1800 vs years after the exchange op sand there were so telephones and 5550 people in Barrie This Works out to one telephone for every so people Today there are some 12600 telephones in the city serving apopulatlon at 22000 or almost one telephone or every two persons Iiiifltbntteoboouudablrt thispicturewnetaheabttb atettzatthoBarrieesd tnttoested attbedeab Mil Mushroom modids rm are McNeil Rufus right It Warniea Curtis and lilies0pere issomwttto nauaru anti idflinjmntldithssagitds newts PROGRESSMPANY ttt PROGRESSIVE connunmt Salute THE BARRIE EXAMINElt On Their 100th ANNIVERSARY Mr McNollls president at lm erialEsstmnn established the first Canadiah plant in an warehouse on Ves ra St five monihslator moved to the present location on yment st near Highwa 400 Under construe on at 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