North-West Telephone Building

Next to the Bank of Montreal on Walnut Street stand the former North-West Telephone Building, built in 1931, and once much more impressive with its beautiful Spanish Revival facade.

In 1912, the Powell River company installed crank telephones in the mill and department managers’ homes. In 1921, the first dial phones in British Columbia were installed in the mill, and in 1930, Powell River received the provinces’s first radio-telephne circuit.

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