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The first woman telephone installer hired by Bell Canada is 23-year-old Lorraine Wilkin, who took off her safety glasses for pictures on a pole and (i(...)
The first woman telephone installer hired by Bell Canada is 23-year-old Lorraine Wilkin, who took off her safety glasses for pictures on a pole and (i(...)

The first woman telephone installer hired by Bell Canada is 23-year-old Lorraine Wilkin, who took off her safety glasses for pictures on a pole and (i(...)

Date2/19/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: The first woman telephone installer hired by Bell Canada is 23-year-old Lorraine Wilkin; who took off her safety glasses for pictures on a pole and (inset) close up. She also drives at Mosport and is helping build an airplane.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017909F
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Talk shopping: At a Bell Canada Phonecentre Suzane Edwards shows that her employer sells and rents numerous types of exotic telephones
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I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
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5/26/1984
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Plaque of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada. Brantford, Ontario
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A photograph of an office building located on a city street, with a sidewalk, telephone poles a ...
Bell Telephone Co. of Canada
Approximately 1917(?)
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Image shows Audrey Owen, Olwen Owen and Sheila Owen (left to right), south of Bell Telephone Bu ...
Audrey Owen, Olwen Owen and Sheila Owen (left to right), south of Bell Telephone Building, Bathurst Street, no. 1399, east side, between Nina Avenue and Meglund Road.
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Bell telephone booth, Millions use phone system
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