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A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...
1878: First phone directory printed in Connecticut. Telegraph manager George Coy of New Haven, Connecticut, developed an exchange—the system that allows people to call each other—within a year ...
On January 3, 2012, during the 2011/2012 Winter Holidays, the school had a fire inside the gymnasium.The damage was 'just over $1 million'. [3] This caused the school's original plans to have the 50th anniversary in May, to be pushed back several months, but classes still resumed on January 9. [4]
This is a list of mayors of Oshawa, Ontario, from its incorporation as a town in 1879 until the present day. [1] Town of Oshawa. William Henry Gibbs - 1879;
After several major expansions during the 1920s, OHS became Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute in 1930. [2] In the post-war era, when Oshawa began building other high schools, OCVI was renamed O'Neill Collegiate and Vocational Institute after long-time principal, Albert O'Neill, who had led its expansion and transition to collegiate status.
G. L. Roberts Collegiate and Vocational Institute is located in Oshawa, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. The school has students in grades 9-12 and offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular activities. Opened in 1972, the school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022.
John Short Larke was the proprietor of the Oshawa Vindicator, a strongly pro-Conservative newspaper, in the late 19th century. [67] Oshawa is home to Artsforum Magazine, a not-for-profit magazine of arts and ideas launched in Fall 2000 by John Arkelian, its publisher and editor-in-chief. Topics in the magazine range from foreign policy to film.
From 1968 to 1972, he was a citizenship court judge in Toronto. Starr was appointed chairman of the Workers' Compensation Board of Ontario in 1973, and served in that position until 1980. [1] In 1979, Starr was appointed Honorary Colonel of The Ontario Regiment (RCAC), a reserve armoured regiment based in Oshawa, Ontario. He held this ...