In the opening years of the twentieth hundred there erupted a strife of words on both sides of the Canadian-American border that l directly to the establishment of government-own and operated telephone methods in Canada's three prairie provinces between 1905 and 1912 This was the increasingly acrimonious debate.

In the opening years of the twentieth hundred there erupted a strife of words on both sides of the Canadian-American border that l directly to the establishment of government-own and operated telephone methods in Canada's three prairie provinces between 1905 and 1912 This was the increasingly acrimonious debate, starting as early as the mid-1880s, through the whole extent of private versus public ownership of industries vaguely classified as "public utilities." Central to the dispute was a fundamental difference in interests that had unfolded over time between big business and local

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