Author: MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS
Title: Alberta Calls - a Magazine for the Employees of the Alberta Government Telephones (Agt): Large Broken Run of 35 Issues from 1937 Through 1967
Description: Edmonton, Alberta: Alberta Government Telephones (AGT), 1937. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. A large and wonderful collection of the AGT publication "Alberta Calls" spanning forty years of the company's history. "Alberta Government Telephones (now known as Telus) was the telephone provider in most of Alberta from 1906 to 1991." - Wikipedia. Includes these issues: Dec '37(entitled "The Silent Partner), Aug '38, Apr '41, Dec '41, Feb '42, Aug '43, Feb '45, June '45, June '46, Aug '46, Dec '46, Feb '47, June '47, Dec '48, Aug '50, Dec '50, Dec '51, Feb '53, June '53, Aug '53, Oct '53, Dec '53, Feb '54, Apr '54, June '54, Aug '54, Oct '54, Dec '54, Feb '55, Aug '55, June '56, Mar '57, July '57, Sept '66, Jan '67. Most issues 10" x 6.75". The latest five are in a larger 10.75" x 8.25" format. Most issues range from twenty to thirty pages. A sampling of the content includes: Historic Blockhouse Near Wetaskiwin To Be Preserved (Aug '38); Long Distance Traffic Statistics (back covers of many issues); Photos of employee's sons on active military service (Apr '41); A nice article with Lethbridge content (Dec '41); A. M. Mitchell Appointed Deputy Minister and General Manager (Aug '43); Photo of AGT hockey team which played The Northern Alberta Railways team (Feb '45); Organization Chart (Feb '45); Photos of linemen at work in the early '20s (June '46); Opening of Toll Service to Grande Prairie - Peace River Area (Aug '46); Photo of Norman MacIver and pals after his 240 yard hole-in-one (Dec '46); Great group photo of annual picnic at Sarcee in 1917; Photo of the 1917 AGT baseball team (June '47); Retirement of R. Molloy (June '47); Group photo of Claresholm staff (Dec '48); Wonderful centerfold photo of Edmonton staff picnic attendees (Aug '50); Leduc Hotel explosion (Dec '50); Retirement of longest serving employee, Fred R. Daniels (Dec '51); New Taber Exchange (June '53); Obituary of A.M. Allen (Aug '53); Jasper Place Exchange (Oct '53); Footballer Alex Yakunin; England Travelogue of Miss Dorothy Buckley; Reminiscences of Field Plant Inspector 'Stu'; Retirement of Frank Jackson, Traffic Engineer; New Killarney Exchange finally brings phones to 2,800 Calgarians (Aug '54); Article by Miss Agnes Shade, a successful employee and pure Blackfoot Indian, who describes "Progress For Our Original Canadians"; Eight photos of a Pole Top Rescue demonstration (Dec '54); Nice photo of Lethbridge employees in 1921 (Feb '55); Mrs. A. Kropp and the Leduc Telephone Office - nice article with photos (Aug '55); Caroline fire (June '56); Rural Mutual Telephone Companies in Alberta (Mar '57); The Tower Trail - Construction of the Trans-Canada Microwave System - with great photos (July '57); Processing the coins from 3,200 payphones in Alberta (Sept '66); Article and photos of Bob McLellan traversing muskeg to maintain equipment around Lac La Biche (Jan '67). Most issues contain abundant employee social, family and sporting news and photos. Several issues describe functions of the Telephone Pioneers. Speaking of which, this collection appears to have been assembled by former AGT employee William E.J. Russ who is mentioned on page 15 of the June '53 issue and whose initials and address appear on several other issues. In addition, this collection includes two of Mr. Russ's certificates of membership in the Telephone Pioneers of America, dated 1953 and 1935. Minor markings in only one issue. All issues complete and intact, aside from the June '53 issue in which the middle pages are loose but present. An extraordinary repository of AGT company and employee history.; Sm 4to.

Keywords: Telephony Business