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Local Enough?

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Learn at your own pace, with an explanation after every answer. No score, no leaderboard – and not preparation for a citizenship test: just to know the country and your neighbours a little better.

Culture & life

Which Ontario city calls itself "The Telephone City" because Alexander Graham Bell developed the idea of the telephone there in 1874?

  • ✓ Brantford Your answer
  • B Kingston
  • C Sudbury
  • D Thunder Bay

Correct!

Bell's family lived in Brantford, where he worked out the idea of the telephone in 1874. Their home is now the Bell Homestead National Historic Site.

Source: Parks Canada / Bell Homestead National Historic Site

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