Alder Grove Heritage Society
3190 271 Street, Aldergrove, BC, V4W 3H7
604-857-0555 | Website
Aldergrove’s Telephone Museum has preserved the integral role the city played in the early years of the industry.
Category:
Visual Arts Location
What:
| Type | | Museum |
Where:
| Neighbourhood | | Aldergrove |
| Getting There | | Bus #502 |
| Cross Street | | 32nd Avenue |
When:
| Wednesday-Saturday 11:00AM-4:00PM |
Profile Last Updated: April 23, 2009
Remember party lines?
We’ve come a long way from party lines, rotary dialing and renting phones from BC Tel. Nowadays it’s portable phones, cell phones, palm pilots and Tweeting. The Aldergrove Telephone Museum takes us back to the time when telephones were a new and thrilling invention. The display includes an operational main switchboard, vintage telephones, telegraph equipment, repair tools, linesman equipment, glass and porcelain insulators, test equipment, battery boxes, army-style chest microphones, an oscillator, and handsets.
The Alder Grove Heritage Society
The society shifted and restored the original prefabricated structure, which is a 1910 BC mill, in which the Telephone Museum now resides. The building is under active restoration. The holdings consist of records and historic reference material relating to the area, including photographs. The collection also proudly preserves a Strowger step-by-step switch. Almon B. Strowger patented the automatic telephone exchange in 1891 when he discovered that the local operator was married to a rival businessman.
We’ve come a long way from party lines, rotary dialing and renting phones from BC Tel. Nowadays it’s portable phones, cell phones, palm pilots and Tweeting. The Aldergrove Telephone Museum takes us back to the time when telephones were a new and thrilling invention. The display includes an operational main switchboard, vintage telephones, telegraph equipment, repair tools, linesman equipment, glass and porcelain insulators, test equipment, battery boxes, army-style chest microphones, an oscillator, and handsets.
The Alder Grove Heritage Society
The society shifted and restored the original prefabricated structure, which is a 1910 BC mill, in which the Telephone Museum now resides. The building is under active restoration. The holdings consist of records and historic reference material relating to the area, including photographs. The collection also proudly preserves a Strowger step-by-step switch. Almon B. Strowger patented the automatic telephone exchange in 1891 when he discovered that the local operator was married to a rival businessman.
Details
Parking: On-site
