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"Number Please" The Davis Telephone Company - Rural Communication History
Images: Buildings & Structures

 
Chanonhouse Drug Store building left of clocktower - Housed the first swithchboard in Eganville, ON
1 of 17 		Eganville streetscape
2 of 17 		Close up view of Shannonhouse and first Davis Telephone Switchboard office.
3 of 17 		An early line crew working on telephone lines.
4 of 17 		This building was built to house the switchboards and is now a jewelry store
5 of 17 		Current view of first building to house the Davis Telephone Company switchboard.
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Second house to house the Davis Telephone Company switchboard
7 of 17 		Royal Canadian Air Force Foymount main gate Pinetree Line
8 of 17 		Gate at Foymount R.C.A.F. Foymount
9 of 17 		Opened September 1st 1952 Foymount was part of the Pine Tree Line air radar base defence of Canada
10 of 17 		Foymount before the radar domes were erected
11 of 17 		Closed October 1st 1974 Canadian Forces base Foymount showing radar domes in winter.
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The new Douglas, Ontario dial station
13 of 17 		Sheldon Davis gives school children a tour of the new Douglas dial station
14 of 17 		New Cormac, Ontario dial office, built in Eganville and moved to site in Cormac
15 of 17 		Rankin cut over to dial celebration
16 of 17 		Bonnechere Museum Eganville Ontario
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