Bell Homestead in Brantford, Ontario

In 1870, Alexander Graham Bell, his parents, and sister-in-law moved from Scotland to a small farm in Brantford, Ontario, in hopes that the Canadian climate would help his poor health. Once recovered, Bell began teaching at the Boston School for the Deaf in the United States, returning to his parents' home for holidays and summers. On July 26, 1874, while at his "dreaming place" on the farm looking out on the Grand River, Alexander Graham Bell came up with the idea for how to make a telephone. A few years later in 1876, Bell made the world's first long-distance telephone call between Brantf...