The Bell Homestead ~

Bell Homestead National Historic Site, Brantford, ON



Brian

"So much of the practical development of the telephone has been in the United States that I think the fact that the telephone was invented in Canada should be more widely known than it is ~ at least in the United States." *

~ Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) inventor.

Brian, our tour guide today, ardently describes the scientific breakthrough that led to the invention of the telephone and points out the path to the banks of the Grand River where Alexander sat in a spot he called his "dreaming place."  (Thank you, Brian.)

Visit:  www.bellhomestead.ca for information and photographs.

* Address, "The Substance of My Latest Research," Empire Club of Canada, Toronto, 1 Nov. 1917.
~ Famous Lasting Words, Great Canadian Quotations, John Robert Colombo, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 2000.
Photos:  lbwalker

Photos: lbwalker

 About Animals ~

 "...they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them long and long,
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

~ Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) American poet, journalist.  Leaves of Grass, 1855, "Song of Myself."