The Connection - Stony Plain, Alberta
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wildwoodke
N 53° 31.692 W 114° 00.412
11U E 698383 N 5935199
This mural, titled "the Connection" is found on Main Street in Stony Plain, Alberta.
Waymark Code: WMDHR2
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 01/18/2012
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This mural is one of the many murals that you will find in Stony Plain, Alberta. This mural celebrates the telephone and its use in the community. A means of communication and announcements of celebration. A way to keep the community together, to grow it and to foster the relationships that are important in a small town.
The town's website describes the mural as:
"In 1906, Alberta Government Telephones was founded and shortly after, a telephone office was installed in Stony Plain. Ottilia (Tilly) Zucht (at the switchboard) was 13 years old when she became a telephone operator. The exchange was then in the office of the local newspaper The Advertiser on the west side of Main Street. Ida Smith was chief operator from 1923 to 1943. She is portrayed with her daughter Charlotte outside the telephone exchange. In August 1963, Stony Plain became part of the Edmonton exchange and no longer required a local operator."
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