[comp.dcom.telecom] Canadian Prefixes

ndallen@uunet.uu.net> (06/24/90)

In-reply-to: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB)

 > In notes I made based on a 1982 AT&T tape, (519) 873 and 786
 > were both Forest, Ontario.

The Forest exchange is operated by the People's Telephone Company of
Forest, one of about 30 independent telcos in Ontario.

 > I had never heard of (819) 484 Purtuniq before.

Many communities in northern Quebec and the Northwest Territories have
dropped their European names and adopted Cree or Inuit names.
Frobisher Bay (819 something), the largest community on Baffin Island,
is now Iqaluit.