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Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site is a 10-hectare (25-acre) property in Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, overlooking the Bras d'Or Lakes. [1] The site is a unit of Parks Canada, the national park system, and includes the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site, which contains the largest repository of artifacts and ...
The second and larger home, Beinn Bhreagh Hall (known locally as "The Point") was built in 1893 on the Beinn Bhreagh estate of Alexander Graham & Mabel Bell at Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Beinn Bhreagh (/ ˌ b ɛ n ˈ v r iː ə / ben VREE-ə) is the name of the former estate of Alexander Graham Bell, in Victoria County, Nova ...
The Bell Homestead National Historic Site, located in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, also known by the name of its principal structure, Melville House, was the first North American home of Professor Alexander Melville Bell and his family, including his last surviving son, scientist Alexander Graham Bell.
Alexander Graham Bell was buried atop Beinn Bhreagh mountain, on his estate where he had resided increasingly for the last 35 years of his life, overlooking Bras d'Or Lake. [192] He was survived by his wife Mabel , his two daughters, Elsie May and Marian, and nine of his grandchildren.
The Bell Memorial is located within the Bell Memorial Gardens, a small park in downtown Brantford, in an area originally slated to be the city's new municipal centre, but which was subsequently built further away. [42] Other names considered for the park but which were not accepted included Bell Circle, Graham Bell Park and Prince George Park. [15]
Alec Bell, who was a Scot and could speak Gaelic, took Baddeck to heart and made their home a gathering place for the village. Alec and his wife Mabel promoted culture, sociability, science, and industry among the villagers. [12] Women workers building lifeboats at Dr. Alexander Graham Bell's laboratory at Beinn Bhreagh.
The Bell Boatyard was a boatbuilding facility which operated as part of Alexander Graham Bell's laboratories in Baddeck, Nova Scotia from 1885 to 1928. The boatyard built experimental craft, lifeboats and yachts during the first part of the twentieth century.
Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site and Museum, opened in 1956 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, near to the Bells' private estate and burial site. The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal , for meritorious achievements in telecommunications.