Lakeshore Advance, 2012-09-12, Page 2212 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Connecting our Communities- 100 years at Hay
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Lakeshore Advance
Connecting our communities -the 100
years written by Pat and Max Morden is
more than Just a history of I lay Communi-
cations- it Is vision- from 1911 to today.
Connecting Our Communities starts
at the beginning and there has been a
profound impact on economic and
social development of the local commu-
nities -that is a fact. Today we don't give
much thought to telephone service; it is
part of everyday life. Today most people
carry their phones -but that was not
always the way. Kelli Phillips, Market-
ing Supervisor says, "I'm told the his-
tory book was a collaborative effort
starting with the amazing foresight by
General Manager Rill Wager who had
A Pole truck
decades of documentation
organized in to a library that
made the final task manageable.
In addition, spectacular photo-
graphs were accumulated and
safely maintained by staff like
harry 1less right hack to the early
1900's. A professional account
of the history was written by Pat
& Max Morden and current stuff
pulled the final copy together."
Phillips goes on to say, "It was
also evident while assembling pho-
tos for the book that the local news-
paper was very involved in the
happenings of new innovations of
telephony. 'I he extensive coverage
by the papers of major events
like stomis, conversion to dial tone,
the loss of switchboard operators
and their strike or the opening of
the new plain office, makes for
interesting historical facts of our
communities. The papers docu-
mented how important the com-
munications industry was and is to
the rural community. All flay cus-
tomers are welcome to pick up a
free copy of'(:onnecting ( hit. Com -
infinities at the main busi-
ness office in Zurich"
Michael '!.eller was a key player
in what was to be in these commu-
nities.Ile moved to I lay Township
in 1856, one of the first settlers with
his wife and eight children. Then
carne Frederick Knell who estab-
lished the town of Zurich. Dash -
Kay communications wood was developed in 1053 and
Grand Bend in the 1830sTravel
between the communities wits dif-
ficult but communication almost
impossibly. 'the answer to this Iso-
lation, say the Homans in the took
was a young Scotsman by the
FOR CHANGE IN HURON BRUCE
VOTE LISA THOMPSON
Lisa will bring change:
vi To keep Walkerton Jail and Rural Schools from closing
r,1 To clean up waste and scandals in Govemment
1�1 To remove HST from Home Energy Bills
ill To improve Health Care and Education
1J1 To give Municipalities control over
Industrial Wind Turbines
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tame of Alexander Graham bell.
Bell's family moved to Brantford in
Canada in 1870.11e and his father
were loth specialists in speech. Ills
mother, profoundly deal holy in
1075 bell was working in his lab in
parents' home in Brantford whet)
he spilled acid on his clothes. 1 Ie
called out to his assistant in the
next room anti his Walrus were car-
ried through the prototype trans-
mitter he was holding, proving it
was possible to transmit the
hunutn voice over an electronically
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charged wire. '"'Illy telephone in its
crudest form had arrived,' says the
information in Connecting our
Communities.
Illy telephone arrived in Zia id•h
in IRM, courtesy of bell 1i'lyplunit.
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