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The "downs" for the system Mr; Grahain.said, when commis- netWork,
' were the lean years of the 030's loners had to decide tot stay in the , Install Jacks ,
when records show the Tucker- telephone business and make He added wliile'Areltersmith
smith system' lost phone sub,- some major improvernents.or else ' repairmen will install jacks
' scribers - peoPle unable around the home, so telephonesto scrape get out of the business. ' •
-together the foWd011ars a year to Improvement cap be moved from room to room, A
keep a telephone ,in their home. In 1963, improvements includ- ., they still want one main phone hi -
in 19-33, the Tuckersinith sub-, ed switching to the. ra j system jil,
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He said city residents moving
. .
scribers made a major. decision Hayfield; starting to lay under-
affeethm . the future of their %usuatinit,,,cables and adding more, to the`. area can bring •the
system. Prior to this, the service lines. ,,.,? • — telephone they've purchased at a
was administered by Tuckerstnith Once the* system started phone centre, and repairmen will.
township' council. At the 1933 • modernizing, it didn't stop. In install it, .241atit we'll-Still charge
annual meeting', snbscribers ,vet- 1966, and 1969, $50,000 worth of the same as if we owned the
ed to elect a three man' commis- • debentures were issued, followed phone,"
sion to handle the responsiblility by $125,000 issues in both 1973 - Today, the Tuckersmith
of making decisions regarding the . and 1976 and this year's -issue of Municipal Telephone System has
future of the telephone service. $150;000 of debentures, which 1,800 subscribers in Tuckersmith
' 69th Meeting • will be sold to the provincial ,... at:ledpShtoannelesylownships with 2,470
At this year's 69th annual' government,
meeting, about 5U subscribers • in 1977, the T.uckersinith In addition to Mr. Graham, the
were in attendance to elect three ' Municipal- Telephone system system employs three repairmen,
new commissioners. the new generated $224,220 in, revenue, ' who work out of the work centre
commission members are yarn and boasted 170 miles of buried in Brucefield,, and one' fulltime
Alderdice, Kippen; Lloyd cable and 5% miles of aerial and one part-time secretary,
employed in the cable.office at-the rear,- Ferguson', R.R.ftt, Hensall and .
Eimer Hayter, Varna, Since the Mr. 'Graham said while most of Mr. Graham:s home, R.R,#1;
Tuckersmith telephone commis- telephone systems are going...to---"Britafield. ,„ -
sion has grown to a five man underground cables, he doubts if &inscribers pay $5,56 a month
board, the two commissioners telephone lines can ever . go for private lines- and $4 m
continuing to serve out their term completely underground in for multi-party lines a 50 per cent
, , are J. Perce Johnston, Hayfield villages. increase from 1950 when a
and W.D. Wilson of Brucefield. Today, the Tuckersmith multi-party linei-COSt `$2." '
7- no- commissioners are paid Municipal Telephone System of, Today, subscribers can, have
$600 annually for 'serving and , fers almost all the servies of Bel!'" " private lines in most areas of the
attending at least one monthly Canada - ineltrditig" prineess system, with the exception Of
meeting. L, . . phones, extensions, push button Egmondville. Mr. Graham said
.....,...-..A.mator decision at this year's - phones - everything but phone after this summer, private lines
' meeting is the plan to expand the centres. „ .......... - •••-•'..... Will also be available there.
service to Hayfield. There are now WhileAell is opening phone The Tuckersinith Telephone 666 subscribers and renters' in centres in major Canadian cities, System has undergone a number
. Hayfield, but the commission where subscribers buy their, own of changes over the years,. A decided to spend $78,000 to ado phones to plug in , at outlets multi-party line once . had • 24
.280 more lines to the area. around.their homes, Mr..Graham users, the phones could be used
Mr. Graham said, "Bayfield questions whether this will ever' only during the hours when
has been good to us' a happen in rural areas.- -
1l had to b
operators
were
on
company" and, now there are. Bell Canada has changed-to the -eput
duty,th raonudgh everya n
more people retiring to. the new system ,in cities to save on ., operator, who obviously knew
village. Also; he said, a few years labour costs - subscribers can now whatc was going on in the ago people didn't want phones in have their phones-hooked up from ,
their cottages, but now they do. the central Bell Canada office
' Mr. Graham„ who---hecarne-,-Whieb-7ent-S-downetrtheSneed:lor-T-7-Z': nYL-'gaboe"ra.ut litre cmpsrocvaTinticeb s secretary-treasurer of the syStem visits by a repairman-every time a
in 1964; on the retirement Of John new phone is installed. municipal telephone system, it's
K. Cornish, said the first major , Mr. Graham 'doesp't see the that they seem to be in good
expansion of the Tuckersmith same thing happening in smaller health - and as Mr. Graham said,
„ system took place in 1963, when ' systems and said, "If You're you expand with the people.".
$150,000 worth_ of debentures going to run a syste :
m, you have to Ontario's Municipal telephone
were• issued. This was the year, have control' of what goes on the systems obviously have. ..
ofTu.cketsmjth
phane...systerp .-outithod.
TUCKERgMITH OFFICE The office of the Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone
System is located in the rear bf Mel Graham's home, just northeast of Bru'cefield.
WORK CENTRE -- The plant superintendent's office for the ^Tuckersmith
Munibipai Telephone System, is located in the centre of Brucefield, and employs
three repairmen to keep• the system in good working order;
ensall women in Leamington
Correspondent
Mrs. Hilda M. Payne
262-501,6
' Mrs. Elizabeth Faber, re-
presenting Carmel Presbyterian
Church, Hensall. W.M.S. and
Mrs.. Rachael Schwalm, re-
presenting the ten participating
comities, attended the Hamilton-
London Synodical held in Knox
PresbYterian Church,--- Learning-
ton',' guests of the Chatham
PresbyterIal. In the tere.years as
an executive member of , the
Synodical, Mrs. Schwalm held
office for four years as Literature
Secretary and for four years as
Children's Work Secretary and
for two years as member without
• portfolio. Within the ten years
she attended the National Council
Board of Canada at Ewart College
in Toronto twice and once attend-
ed Guelph University• Secretary
Training, for a week.
Mr.\ Laird Mickle and, Mrs.
Florence Joynt 'were guests on
Sunday with the- formt.e's"SOn and
daughter-in-law., DI. • & Mrs.
Robert Mickle and family.
Huronview plans Blossom Tea' in May
Owing to the sudden death of
the late president, Mrs. Connie.
Colclough, the secretary of • the
Huronview Auxiliary, Mrs. Annie
MeNiChol opened-a-meeting "tit
the auxiliary on April 1., when,
two minutes silence was observed'
in memory of ,Mrs. Colclough.
The roll call was anwered by
those who were not present at the
March meeting paying their fees.
Chestier Arehibald
Huronview superintendant was'
asked to sit in for . part of the
meeting and discussion followed
to 'try and fill' the offices •for the
corvine year.
The auxiliary agreed to dis-
continue -the-Christmas Fair and
instead to have a party for. the
residents and serve tea and
cookies. The Blo'sso'm Tea will be
held as arranged on May 31 when
there will be a bake table. Any
who would like to help in the work
IfiirOnview Auxiliary may
do so by donating towards' the'
bake table.
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THE GOOD OLD DAYS — Marlene Welsh, R.R.5,
Clinton, an ernployee.oLthe Tucrersmith Telephone
Systern, demonstrates one of the earliest telephones
in use. This phone, which came from the Dublin
-area, was likely used in the early 1900's, When party
lines w really party lines.
SYSTEM MAPPED OUT — Sharon Chuter,' of
,„hR.1', Varna, who works in the Tuckersmith
Tolephone office, points to the location of the office
on' a map outlining the area served by the
independent telephone system.
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Although some people see, the
province's Independent 'telephone
companies as brave, but doomed
little. knights doing battle with. a
giant red dragon known as Bell
Canada, this really isn't the case:
MCI Graham, secretary-.
treasurer of" the Tuckersmith
Municipal T,elephenc System, and
this year president of the Ontario
Telephone ' Association, says
there are, 35 independent tele- .
phone systems operating-in the ,
----,province today:.
There' are also a number of
independent systems throughout
in Quebec, the Western provinces
and scattered throughout • the
-United States, ' •
Mr. Graham said Bell C an ada
ha's never really tried to buy the
Tuckersmith system out aind
added independent companies
-.have been able to survive because
- they'Ve kept up with. the tech-
nology of service offered by the.
larger,..company,-
Mel Graham
A Small One
The one smaller telephone
system in the province whichis an
exception to this rule is found in
the Cambray area, east of
Toronto, .
The 690 phones tie into
,.system still operate- on the
common battery system .•!'in other
words, 'all calls must, be• dialed .
through ah operator, a• practice
that was abandoned in . the
Se.aforth area in the 1960's.
While Camray is contemplat-
ing the' changeover to., .dial
system, Mr: Grahani said, "they
just haven't got there yet,"
The Tuckersmith Municipal
Telephone System, which' has
1800 subscribers today and is
about to expand its service
started in 1909.
Mr. Graham said it was -likely
formed becatise no one else in
those ,days could supply the
service,„, so people in municipal-
hie§ banded together and started
their own telephone companies.
” Mr. 'Graham emphasizes.mun-
icipal telephone companies like
Tuckersmith have "rider been a
money making project, they were
fornied to provide service at a
going rate."
Over the years, thesystem 'has
had- its -ifull arid clOyvns": the
secretary-treasurer said.
Certainly one of the "ups:.'
occurred
-
occurred 'in 1928 when Tucker-
smith bought, out- the Bayfield
telephone system. Mr. Graham
said he. isn't even, sure money
changed hands in. the transaction,
but since' then, .the Hayfield
;telephone systeM has been part of
the aegis of the Tuckersmith,,
'system.
The Hayfield calls were switch-
ed from the Clinton • telephone
office..until 1949, when a switch-
board was installed in - Bayfield,
and an operator hired to handle
In; 1909, the people of .:17ucker;.
Smith- township .decided 'it was .
time they were ,serviced • by , a •
telephone system. After all; the
town of Scaforth had its first
telephone installed in 1884 in the
Papst store, . • • •
Tuckersmith township council,
under' reeve Robert Kay,
agreed to -take 'responsibility foe
the neWserviee„ and the Tucker-
smith Municipal', Telephone
SysteM was born. • . •
The first three directors of the
.systeinwere Thomas Shillinglaw,
'Peter, . McKay and James'
Gemmel], • who was appointed
secretary. • • , .• • -
Debentures were , issued . to
finance , the system and
7subs-eitierS "paid a haii-C-iiite of
• -$11.87 per year per telephone
TVs. amount was divided, with .
$8.32 going ' towards, the
debenture payment and $3.50
going to Bell Telephone. who
handled. the switching- chores 'for ,
the TuckerSmith system.
. n the system's early days,
-there was a total of 264
subscribers. The majority of .
these. 199 subScribers to be
exact, lived in Tuckersmith
Town-ship and the rest were foiled
in Stanley; Hay. • McKillop.
Hullett, Hibbert and Usborne
Townships. •
In 191 1 the Tuckersmith system
added a ' Stanley Township
extension built by Robert Smith of
Scaforth. Rates increased to a
hefty .$12.72 per year.
• Over the years, the system
expanded to serve other areas,
including the yillage of Bayfield.
In 1922. „directors were faced
with one of their first 'crises--a
severe sleet storm damaged lines
to the tune of $12,000 Worth of
repairs -and subscribers found
their service was interrupted
betweeli the, months of February
.and•--June. • .
•• In 1933, .the Tuckersmith
Municipal telephone System
became the responsibility of three
commissioners elected by
• subscribers at t.the annual
meeting. The first three men who
were entrusted with managing
the finances and affairs of, the
service were-Thomas Shillinglaw...
of Tuckersmith, William McEwan
of, Stanley, and William
Alexander of Hay. The men were
fppointed for one, two- or three
year terms, so a commission
would never 'be made up entirety
..of inexperienced officers.
In 1926,,the, Triekersmith servie
assumed responsibility for .;
phones in Hayfield,. and in 1949,
--the-systenropered-a •new-switch--
-board office in • the village.
managed by Mrs. Malcolin Toms
and her staff.
The
subscri
bers office
t o a
allowed
, a ite nOf t
some
e
Clinton and, Hensall exchanges.
In 1954, Bell nada
announced they 'were going to
install a dial exchange building in'
Clinton and wouldn't 'be able to
I e magneto' switching for the.
TrickersMith system after the
,spring of 195b h
' The dilemma facing Tucker-
smith telephone commission was
whether to change to dial phones.
as well or else install their own
switchborIrd. The decision was to
nxidernize and in November,
1955, W.E. Managhan; a
plasterer.- of IL R. #5. Clinton..
received the first dial phone in ten
Tuckersmith system.
.The changeover to dial phones
cost $16,000 and the township
graciously loaned' the telei
--company the money to make the
drangeover.
By 1964. the • Tnekersmith
Municipal Telephone System was
servicing an area of 280 square
miles, with 180 miles of telephone
poles. 30 miles -of buried cable
and 1,250 telephones.
This information which' first
appeared the Huron Expositor
' in 1964, 'was gleaned from J.k.^
Cornish, •Tor in er secretary-
treasurer of . the Tuckersmith.
Municipal Telephone Systern,
• and J. W. McBeath, Brucefleld,
plant superintendent for 'the
system.
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