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Logo used by the Bell Telephone Company of Canada from 1902 to 1922. The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd. was created by an act of Parliament on April 29, 1880. [7] Later known as Bell Canada, its charter granted it the right to construct telephone lines alongside all public rights-of-way in Canada.
Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell [6] in the borough of Verdun, Quebec, in Canada. It is an ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec ; as such, it was a founding member of the Stentor Alliance .
The initial stock capital was $50,000 at $100 per share, with 93% held by the Bell Telephone Company of Canada and the remainder held by seven corporate directors. [19] The first general stockholders meeting was held on March 24, 1896.
The Bell Telephone Company was the initial corporate entity from which the Bell System originated to build a continental conglomerate and monopoly in telecommunication services in the United States and Canada. The company was organized in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard.
Power Corporation of Canada: Montreal 40.0 1.0 326.7 11.4 Finance 17 427 Magna International: Aurora 40.8 2.3 25.9 18.3 Automotive parts 18 501 National Bank of Canada: Montreal 8.4 1.7 200.5 15.9 Banking 19 566 Rogers Communications: Toronto 11.6 1.6 23.4 26.6 Telecommunication 20 623 Teck Resources: Vancouver: 9.7 2.4 29.0 14.1 Mining 21 625 ...
In Canada, Bell Canada (divested from AT&T in 1975) continues to use the Bell name. For the decades that Nortel was named Northern Telecom, its research and development arm was Bell Northern Research. Bell Canada and its holding-company parent, Bell Canada Enterprises, still use the Bell name. They used variations of the circled-bell logo until ...
A joint venture between Rogers Communications and Bell Canada owns 75% of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association, Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, and Toronto FC of Major League Soccer, as well as their minor ...
The Source (Bell) Electronics Inc., doing business as The Source (French: La Source), was a Canadian consumer electronics and cell phone retail chain. The chain had been present for more than 50 years in Canada, initially as Radio Shack and later as The Source by Circuit City .