Last name was Begg. Aileen, Bernice & Gord are their children. Youngest Gordon born in 1945. Girls were both born before WW2.
The type of Electro-Mechanical switching equipment primarily used in BC Allowed for short cuts to dialing within your exchange particularly in smaller exchanges and towns. This could be different from one exchange to the next, frequently allowing you to just dial the last 4 or 5 digits within your exchange. Electronic brought an end to that.
This collage of pictures is inside one of the small rural trailers providing up to 200 lines in small communities.
@AE_Collector wrote:My aunt and uncle lived on Main Street at 47th.
I will look to see if I have the conversion date for FRaser and ELgin to FAirfax 7 digit numbers.... tomorrow. The push was on to standardize North America on 7 digit dialling with the new 3 digit area codes by the end of the 1950’s as direct distance dialling began to be introduced. Customers could dial their own long distance calls then without the assistance of an operator.
It should have been one of these in your alcove.
Yes! Phone is correct. What is aunt and uncle last name? Their children would have gone to Van Horne Elementary and John Oliver Secondary High.
Just to add about dialling when we first moved to Pitt Meadows in 1973ish. Everyone was on the 465 exchange and you could call any one on the 465 exchange only (from the 465 exchange) using the last 4 digits.
My aunt and uncle lived on Main Street at 47th.
I will look to see if I have the conversion date for FRaser and ELgin to FAirfax 7 digit numbers.... tomorrow. The push was on to standardize North America on 7 digit dialling with the new 3 digit area codes by the end of the 1950’s as direct distance dialling began to be introduced. Customers could dial their own long distance calls then without the assistance of an operator.
It should have been one of these in your alcove.
@AE_Collector wrote:It is a European phone and they didn’t really use letters as part of phone numbers there very much. FRaser and ELgin were 6 digit exchanges as that exchange area was the second in Vancouver (city) to be converted to dial in 1941 or 1942. ELgin was an addition to FRaser once FRaser was full at 10,000 numbers. But conversion to 7 digit dialling was just around the corner by then which turned them both into FAirfax numbers. For example FAirfax 5 may have been all of the FRaser numbers and FAirfax 7 may have been all the ELgin numbers.
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Right ON!!! I lived at 50th and Ontario...close to Main and then next main street was Fraser. So we were of a poor family with no phone or TV. I can remember it being installed in an alcove in the wall that was in an open closet by the front door. I was probably 6 years old or so. A phone was not to be used then like it is today!!! Eventually we had it moved to a central spot in the house when we had the house raised for a basement to be added. So all of our friends were FRaser and we were ELgin like you say....so our Elgin 2124 was changed for some reason to FAirfax 5 2124 and then became 325-2124. But don't dial it!! I won't answer!!!
It is a European phone and they didn’t really use letters as part of phone numbers there very much. FRaser and ELgin were 6 digit exchanges as that exchange area was the second in Vancouver (city) to be converted to dial in 1941 or 1942. ELgin was an addition to FRaser once FRaser was full at 10,000 numbers. But conversion to 7 digit dialling was just around the corner by then which turned them both into FAirfax numbers. For example FAirfax 5 may have been all of the FRaser numbers and FAirfax 7 may have been all the ELgin numbers.
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@AE_Collector wrote:I keep my mom and my in-laws cell phones going for them for emergency purposes so if I can snag a bargoon, all the better! Thanks again @LurganIeUk
I prefer marketplace for selling things, t seems to be a bit better organized though I don't know what the viewership comparisons are like. I am working at reducing the inventory of landline phones lurking around my place and always have some on Marketplace. At the rate I’m going my surplus (surplus to my phone collection) may all be re-homed in 20 years or so. That ought to give me 5 years afterwards to enjoy retirement!
How do you dial Fairfax with that phone??? Or Elgin. That one must be pre 1950!!!!
I keep my mom and my in-laws cell phones going for them for emergency purposes so if I can snag a bargoon, all the better! Thanks again @LurganIeUk
I prefer marketplace for selling things, t seems to be a bit better organized though I don't know what the viewership comparisons are like. I am working at reducing the inventory of landline phones lurking around my place and always have some on Marketplace. At the rate I’m going my surplus (surplus to my phone collection) may all be re-homed in 20 years or so. That ought to give me 5 years afterwards to enjoy retirement!
