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---eage TELEPHONE NUMBER I$ YUkon 3-2462 ~~ BOB ARCHER MOTORS . PONTIAC - BUICK - VAUXHALL - GMC TRUCKS FRIGIDAIRE PRODUCTS *. : ORC EOE ROR ROROROROOROROROPOR OUR NEW TELEPHONE NUMBER IS i YUkon 5-2231 A. M. Lawrence, Phm. B. THE REXALL STORE CAMERAS - STATIONERY - COSMETICS Queen Street, Port Perry, Cape ep en ee eS nL Be0208080000000000000 8090908000808 040 SOOO nt 0 0 hh 0s 8 0 ht Be Bt ht it Rt Bd et bet hr LAKE SCUGOG LUMBER OC S0S080808080008090N On IF YOU WANT LUMBER DIAL TE OUR NUMBER YUkon 5-7391 OPOPOPOPOR0 > OH 2000200 C0020808090800080800080000000000080808008080080S0808000S0S0 %, o 2, 3 be 2. o 00 32328252 -- POLICE -- YUkon 35-2121 YUkon 35-2345 -- TOWN OFFICE - .~ YUkon 5-7981 ' THE CORPORATION OF THE VILLAGE OF PORT PERRY DON'T FORGET ( -- Our New Number is YUkon 5-731 "SHOP THE CATALOGUE WAY" ( = 00M. PORT PERRY OFFICE Sm Local Interest Developed Early _ Local interest developed shortly after Alexander Graham Bell had invented the "taking box", as it was often called in its infancy. The first working model of the telephone was produced in 1876 and records indicate that the next year, a Port Perry resident, P., S: Jenkjns, applied for the local agency. However, it had already been granted to a Bow- manville man, W. McSpadden, for the entire county. Another Port Perry man, J, S, Hoitt, seems to have been intrigued by the early telephone and he, too, applied for the job of handl- ing the leasing of telephones in this district. 2 » Despite the early interest shown, it apparently was not until 1884 that elephone service was started here, That year, long distance lines were built from Port Perry to Toronto and from Port Perry to Whitby through Uxbridge, Goodwood, Stouffville, Markham and Brooklin, S. E. Allison was- the telephone 5 agent in Port Perry at that time and he set up the only Port Perry tele- phon, in his drug store on Queen Street. It was more than a year be- fore other telephones were installed here and a switchboard was put in to provide for the inter-connection of these sets. By the end of 1885, Port Perry res- idents, who less than two years be- fore didn't even have a telephone in the community, could talk via the telephone to people as far west as Windsor and as far east as Quebec City. By this time, nine people here had telephones in their homes or off- ices, Tivo years later, another long distance line was constructed linking Uxbridge with Lindsay and giving Port Perry a more direct route to Lindsay, Peterborough, Belleville and intermediate points: The first telephone directory _in- cluding Port Perry subscribers was published in 1885 and showed the foll- owing local listings: Allison, S. E,, Druggist, Queen St. Curts & Henderson, Flour & Feed Merchants, Queen Street. Grand Trunk R'y. Station, Water Street. Lawder, John, Grain Merchant, corner of Queen & Water Streets Oriental Hotel, J. J. Risdon, Prop. corner of Queen & Water Streets Ontario Bank, Queen Street Patterson, N, FF. Q.C., Barrister, Queen Street Ross, A, & Son, General Merchants, Queen Street Sangster, Dr. J. H., Queen Street Trounce, W. J. & Co,, Flour Mills, Water Street The first operators employed by telephone companies were boys. How- ever, it didn't take very long to dis- cover that their general rudeness and complete lack of tact and patience virtually ruled out their suitability a8 operators. Subsequently, the job became one for girls, Another aspect of early telephone service seems rather odd to people long- acustomed to enjoying continu. ous telephone service is that the first subscribers -could only use their tele- phones when the exchange was open, i.e,, when there was an operator on duty to complete their calls, The 1887 directory for this area shows that the Port Perry exchange was open from 8 am. to 8 pan. weekdays; 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays; 10 to 12 noon and 2 to 4 pm. on holidays, ~ By 1891, Port Perry's population had reached 2,000 and they were ser- ved by 13 telephones. The directory for 1897 for the first time shows that local telephone . customers had had numbers assigned to them, Until that time, the operator completed calls by using names rather than numbers, Five years after the turn of the century, the Bell Telephone Company purchased some 87 miles of line and 54 telephones from three doctors, D. Archer, E. L. Proctor, and S. J. Mell- ow who each owned a small telephone business. The purchases increased substantially the 'Bell's plant and raised the number af Bell subscrib- ers in Port Perry to 72, A Bell employee of this era (19056) writes in his memoirs of going to Port Perry at this time as one of a gang of men assigned to rebuilding the telephone line previously owned by 'one of above-mentioned doctors. He describes how the line had. been placed along farm fences which meant that when a farmer opened his gate, the circuit was opened. Telephone expansion continued in the area and by 1911, new and larger quarters were needed to house the switchboards and telephone offices. Accomodation was supplied by W. H. McCaw who was Port Perry's tele- phone agent and had been ever since 1887 when he succeeded Mr. Allison. In the next few years, the increase in the number of telephones here was nothing short of phenomenal - leap- ing ahead by about 100 sets per year. In 1910, there were 113 telephones here. By 1916, this number had reach- ed 637. . Expansion slowed following these years of rapid growth and by 1929 .and the financial crises, the number of sets stood at 856. The depression made its presence felt on the tele- phone business here and by 1933, the number of telephones in service in Port Perry had fallen to 592, In 1940, 413 of the G55 telephones in Port Perry were transferred to the Woodbridge and Vaughan Tele- phone Company but 11 years later, the Bell Telephone Company bought out the Woodbridge and Vaughan Company and its 715 telephones giv- ing the Bell 1,178 telephones in the community. ' Mra, Hazel M. Wallace, Bell Tele- phone chief operator in Port Perry, 1s a life-long resident of this com- munity. She has a service record with the Bell extending back over 82 | years. Mrs. Wallace was born here and attended local elementary. and secon- dary schools. She first joined the Bell as an operator in the ldeal office in May, 1026, In 1062, her duties were extended to include some "clexi- cal responsibilities and, in 1067, Mrs. Wallace was appointed chief opera- tor. ! Gardening and sports 'including lawn bowling are the main hobbies Mrs, Wallace is" interested in afid she will stay on in Port Perry after the closing of the manually-operated switchboard on Sunday to engage in these and her many other activities. Mrs. Wallace is a member of the Wo- men's Association of Port Perry Uni- ted Church. : . 3 LRTI NT ERE LE This rather complicated rig is a telephone cable. He * AE aALlaN This particulan "plow train", an outfit used to bury |'"train" was photographed as it was | Oshawa buried cable in 1941. engaged in laying the Port Perry to The long awaited announcement of the coming dial service was made in 19567 and since that time the necessary construction and installat- ion work to prepare for the cutover was carried out in the community by Northern Electric-and Bell Telephone crews, i 'The advent of dial service and the two-five type of telephone number is a major step towards the eventual introduction in Port Perry of 'Dir- eet Distance Dialing" of station-to station long distance calls. Through DDD, a customer is able to dial his own long distance calls: without the aid of an operator. DDD to several Michigan centres has been in effect for Windsor and district users since 1956. Last month, Toronto subscribers received DDD service to a limited number of points in Canada and the United States and Guelph telephone customers received similiar service on June 16. 'Mrs. Hope's Tobacco Shop Dial " YUkon 5-2490 our NEW TELEPHONE NUMBER O YUkon 5-2242 Western Tire & Auto Supply Queen Street Port Perry The excellence of long distance transmission today is a result of sev: eral major inventions and many min. or improvements in the last 50 yrs. By the turn of the century, it had been found that in order to transmit the voice in sufficient volume over many miles of wire, it was necessary to use thick wire. thick as a lead pencil were being used to transmit long distance conversa- tions 1,000 miles. It was an expen- sive and awkward arrangement, Then, in that same year, "loading coils" were invented. Looking like an enlarged doughnut, they were made by wrapping thin wire many, many times around a soft iron core or ring. When these coils are connected at intervals along the telephone line, the clectrical current carries farther and voice vibrations are not so weak- ened. By 1911 it was possible to talk over lines 2,000 miles long with the wires reduced to one cighth of their former weight. Loading coils themselves have been further improved and many thous- ands of them are used on telephone lines today. The next big step in long distance telephone development was the in- troduction of the telephone 'repeater'. If you were to put down the figure I and add 75 zeros you would have the millons of billions of times your voice may have to he amplified to carry across the continent on a tele- phone line. Power of this magnitude cannot he fed into the wires all at once. It has to he spread over the line by means of repeater stations, which might be likened to a line of strong-lunged men posted on hilltops. ~The first shouts a message; the next one picks it up and relays it with renewed volume to the third man; and so on. The strong-lunged man that a re- peater station houses is a small tube --the electronic tube --not unlike the amplifier tube in a vadio receiving set. In the tube, a failing voice cur- rent passes the variations of the voice along to a fresh current just as the baton is passed from a spent runner to a fresh one in a relay race. Theoretically, there is no limit to the number of times a voice current may be renewed. You could telephone from the earth to the moon if a mo- dern long distance line ran that far! YUkon SAND, GRAVEL, PORT PERRY "Prompt and Efficient Service" D D> D CRUSHED STONE, LOAM _% WASHED SAND and STONE $ ONTARIO ODED & 3-7982 ELLSWORTH KENNEDY © ORORC POPP New Dial YUkon PEEL'S HARDWARE /- For Night Service Call YUkon 5-2473 PLUMBING -- HEATING FULL LINE OF HARDWARE and APPLIANCES QUEEN ST., PORT PERRY Number 9-2431 In 1900 wires as| Many Inventions Make Possible To Day's Long Distance Service EL LP TT PY PTET PRT TINY »® Long Distance Dialing Possible Within a Few Years Port Perry telephone users will be able to dial their own long distance calls within a few years just as they will be dialing local calls after the new exchange opens here early July 6. J. W. Lowery, Bell Telephone man- ager for this region, said that the community's new dial exchange is equipped to tie in with a continent- wide network which will eventually turn Canada and United States into one vast telephone exchange. And that's the underlying reason why the standard two-letter, five figure numbering plan is being in- troduced here. 3 The numbering plan has sufficient scope -- when used in conjunction with area numbering codes -- to pro- vide each of the 70,000,000 telephone in the two countries with a number distinet from all others. For purposes of the plan, North America is divided into about 110 numbering areas, each with a three digit code. The code for this part of Ontario , for example is 416. A person wishing to dial a call from Chicago to Port Perry would first dial 416 which would carry the call into this area. Following this, he would dial the full two letters and five figures of the number - for ex- ample, YU 5---1-2-3-4, The two letters and the first digit would carry the cull into the Port Perry exchange, and the final four digits would sel- the individual telephone. All of this would take place in a matter of seconds and the call would reach its destination as soon as the dialing had been completed. Switching of the call would be done by a complex clectromechanic brain called a number 4 crossbar-switching machine. Two such machines are now in operation in the Bell Telephone Company's territory - one in Toronto, the other in Montreal, The No. 4 crossbar equipment is capable of accepting the call, select- ing a route (and choosing an alter- nate one should the circuits in the first be busy), and switching it through to the distant telephone, Billing is madqg possible through the use of "dlGtomatic message accounting" equipment which will re- cord the date, time of day, called tele- phone number and duration of call. Direct distance dialing -- as the service is called -- is already serving some Bell customers. It was intro- duced in Windsor in 1946 and tele- phone users_there can now dial direct to more than 1,000,000 telephones in more than 60 communities in the U.S. Limited DDD service to some points in Ontario, Quebec and the U.S. was vet -made-available to telephone users in Toronto in May and Guelph last month Other cities and towns will gradually be added to the list until the continent- wide plan is in full operation. Meanwhile the dial equipment will be giving wide service to Bell Tele- phone Company customers here after July 6th, It will enable the originat- ing operators in Oshawa to dial direct to the called telephone on about three- quarters of all out-of-town calls in Bell territory, "Direct distance dialing will pro- vide faster long distance service just as the new dial equipment will provide faster local service here," Mr. Lowery said. "When it is intro- duced, it will not mean that there will no longer be employment for op- . erators since many will still be need- ed to provide information service and to fill other operating jobs." "Indeed," Mr, Lowery said, "use of long distance is growing so rapidly that it was essential that mechanical means of switching calls be developéd for there would not, otherwise, have been sufficient girls to fill all the jobs." w»