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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0753 | | TITLE: | Burnt River Mutual Telephone Company fonds | | CREATOR: | Burnt River Rural Mutual Telephone Company | | DATE RANGE: | 1957-1973, predominant 1960-1970 | | EXTENT: | 0.07 m of textual records. – 5 maps | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Burnt River Rural Mutual Telephone Company, also known as the Burnt River Mutual Telephone Company, was incorporated on June 24, 1952 and served an area around Woking, Alberta. Specifically, it included Township 76, Ranges 6 and 7, West of the 6th Meridian (76-6,7-W6). The company did not actively begin telephone service in the area until circa (ca.) 1960 and Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) assumed provision of communication services in the area on September 20, 1970. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Fond consists of the business records of the Burnt River Rural Mutual Telephone Company and includes Alberta Government Telephone notices, agreements, minutes, telephone statistics, correspondence, returned cheques, financial records, notes, subscriber accounts, receipts, and maps. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Records of various other telephone companies are also located at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Some records dated after the official closure of the Burnt River Rural Mutual Telephone Company have been included in this fonds.The region serviced by the mutual telephone company is represented according to the Alberta Township Survey (ATS) system. |
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