| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1109 | | TITLE: | Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company fonds | | CREATOR: | Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company | | DATE RANGE: | 1935-1942 | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The function of administrating the power to purchase, lease, construct, extend, maintain and operate a telephone or telegraph system or systems first began in the Province of Alberta with The Municipal Telephone Act (S.A. Chapter 31, 1906). This legislation gave the administrating power to the municipalities. In 1908 legislation gave the Government of Alberta this power in An Act Respecting Government Telephone and Telegraph Systems (S.A. Chapter 14, 1908). The Telephone Branch of the Department of Public Works first issued a report in 1908. The Telephone Branch ceased operation in 1912 and the function emerged in a new Department of Railways and Telephones (S.A. Chapter 10, 1911-12). In 1955 the Department of Railways and Telephones became the Department of Telephones (S.A. Chapter 38, 1955). In 1958 The Alberta Government Telephone Act created a corporate entity to administer the function of a government owned communication system. The Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company was incorporated on March 31, 1936 and served an area around Huallen, Alberta. The date of integration between the Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company and Alberta Government Telephones is unknown. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Mrs. Lulu Gertrude Allen deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1975. Mrs. Allen and her husband, Hugh Allen, were subscribers of the Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Fonds consists of the business records of the Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone and includes subscriber accounts, minutes for April 10, 1937 and March 26, 1938, telephone statistics for 1941, an annual return for 1942. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Other records deposited by Lulu Gertrude Allen can be found in PR1096 Hugh Allen fonds, PR1123 United Grain Growers, PR1100 Lower Beaver School District No. 2812, and PR0971 Alberta Livestock Co-operative fonds. Records of various other telephone companies are also located at the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
| | GENERAL NOTE: | The fonds was donated at the same time and in the same accession as records belonging to the following fonds: Hugh Allen fonds, PR1123 United Grain Growers, PR1110 Lower Beaver School District No. 2812, and PR0971 Alberta Livestock Co-operative fonds. | | RELATED ITEMS: | A4254 (Stooked Wheat Crop)
A4255 (Belly River, Near Glenwood, Alberta)
A4256 (Belly River, Near Glenwood, Alberta)
A4832 (United Grain Growers Executive)
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