1913 Advertisements By British Columbia Telephone Company – Telephone Courtesy and Etiquette

Historic Victoria Advertisements

Technology – 1910-1919

As part of our series on Historic Victoria Advertisements, Technology, 1910-1919, here are two 1913 advertisements from the British Columbia Telephone Company (now part of Telus Corporation), on the subject of telephone courtesy and etiquette.

From the ad copy: “The manner in which a person uses a telephone indicates his character to a great extent, and makes either a good or bad impression….Let us throughout the whole house strive to excel in satisfactory telephoning.”

1913 advertisement for the British Columbia Telephone Company (Victoria Online Sightseeing Tours collection)

1913 advertisement for the British Columbia Telephone Company (Victoria Online Sightseeing Tours collection)

Here are links to some historic photographs of the BC Telephone Company from this period:

• BC Archives photo D-05677 – February 1916;  BC Telephone Company staff outside the BC Telephone building, 1321 Blanshard Street, during blizzard of February 1916

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