Telegraph House
The Telegraph House is a historic hotel located in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
History
The hotel was built in 1861 and soon after housed the office of the first Trans-Oceanic Cable Company.[1] The hotel first came to prominence after Joseph Twichell and Charles Dudley Warner stayed there in 1873. Warner subsequently detailed their stay in his book, Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing which was published the following year. Warner described the inn as a "very unhotel-like appearing hotel".[2] Having read Warner's book, Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel Gardiner Hubbard stayed at the Telegraph House on their visit to Baddeck in 1885.[3] After returning to his home in Washington, D.C. Bell wrote to Kate Dunlop, the owner of the Telegraph House, telling them that they wished to acquire a cottage for their return the following year.[4] Dunlop put Bell into contact with Arthur McCurdy (father of John Alexander Douglas McCurdy) who helped Bell purchase a local property.[5] Bell's room has been preserved in the hotel, remaining much the same is it did during his visit.[6]
See also
- Historic Buildings in Baddeck, Nova Scotia
- History of Baddeck
References
- ^ "Telegraph House and Dunlop Guest House - Our History". Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ Warner, Charles Dudley (1891). Baddeck, And that Sort of Thing (14 ed.). Boston: houghton, Mifflin and Company. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ^ Tulloch, Judith (2006). The Bell family in Baddeck : Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel Bell in Cape Breton. Halifax [N.S.]: Formac Pub. ISBN 0887807135.
- ^ "Biography – McCURDY, ARTHUR WILLIAMS – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
- ^ "Biography – McCURDY, ARTHUR WILLIAMS – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
- ^ "Telegraph House and Dunlop Guest House - Our History". Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
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- AEA Cygnet
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- Rachel Davis
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- Mabel H. Grosvenor
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- George Kennan
- William Kidston
- Moses E. Kiley
- Carleton L. MacMillan
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- David McCurdy
- John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
- William F. McCurdy
- John Archibald McDonald
- James Charles McKeagney
- Aulay MacAulay Morrison
- Kendall Myers
- Michael A. Newton
- George W. Rice
- Barclay Edmund Tremaine
- Jessica Wong