1. noun, The Bell Telephone Company (COD); 2. attributive
1.
“I was at the Bell at that time. I was chief operator there.”
“I was working at the Bell, and he’d come back Friday and pick me up in town, and then we’d come down to go into the farm for the weekend, eh, and leave the car at the road and walk through the snow.”
“I looked after Sarah’s kids cause she worked at the Bell, eh, too, eh, and she worked nights.”
“No, I was at the Bell at that time.”
“I worked at the Bell Telephone, and he worked on the Wolfe Islander.”
“I worked at the Bell Telephone at one point for a couple of years.”
2.
“They had a tendency to walk the snowbanks over here. You could touch the Bell wires and stuff. That’s how high the snowbanks were.”
“So she boarded the teachers but she also boarded, like- what was it? The hydro [workers] came then or Bell Telephone men or anybody that needed a place to board; that’s what she done.”
“That’s where our house was, right by the Bell Telephone office.”
“I worked in the Bell Telephone office at that time. I was there for seventeen years. And then they went dial.”
Words of Wolfe Island 