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Alpha Mutual Telephone Company fonds
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1939-1973 (Creation)
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- Alpha Mutual Telephone Company
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- Some minutes and financial records of the Alpha Mutual Telephone Company dated after the closing of the telephone company are included in this fonds.
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0.06 m of textual records. - 2 maps
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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 <em>The Municipal Telephone Act</em> (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 <em>An Act Respecting Government Telephone and Telegraph Systems</em> (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 <em>The Alberta Government Telephone Act</em> created a corporate entity to administer the function of a government owned communication system. The Alpha Mutual Telephone Company was incorporated circa (ca.) 1939 and served an area around Craigmyle, Alberta. Specifically, it included Townships 29, 30, and 31, Ranges 15, 16, and 17, West of the 4th Meridian (29,30,31-15,16,17-W4). The company was taken over by Alberta Government Telephones on April 17, 1972.
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Fonds consists of the business records of the Alpha Mutual Telephone Company and includes a line maintenance diary, minutes, share certificates, subscriber lists, subscriber accounts, financial records, agreements, and maps.
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Mr. C.D. Lenfesty deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1973. Mr. Lenfesty was the Secretary-Treasurer of the Alpha Mutual Telephone Company.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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Associated materials
Records of various other telephone companies are also located at the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
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Further accruals are not expected.
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The region serviced by the mutual telephone company is represented according to the Alberta Township Survey (ATS) system.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1973.571<br><br>
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- Alpha Mutual Telephone Company (Subject)