Alexander Graham Bell came to Canada in August of 1870 and settled on a small farm just outside of Brantford, Ontario. On July 26, 1874 he invented the telephone here. And, in August, 1876 he made the world's first successful long-distance telephone call between Brantford and Paris, Ontario. Because all of this happened here, Brantford became known as “The Telephone City”. In 1881, the Bells sold the farm. From this time until 1909, the Bell Homestead had six other owners. The Homestead was donated in 1909 to the Brantford Parks Department so that it could be opened to the public as a parkland and museum. Today, the Homestead looks very much like it did when the Bells lived here, with their original furniture, belongings, and models of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephones. Queen Elizabeth II declared the Bell Homestead a Canadian National Historic Site on June 28, 1997. Complete the adventure lab and check the journal entries for clues to a bonus cache!
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