Thomas Wardrope Eadie (July 26, 1898 – September 6, 1986) born in Ottawa and died at Pierrefonds Manor QC. Son of Robert and Flora (Stewart) President of

Bell Canada Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell) is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the borough of Verdun in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is an ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) in t ...

from July 1, 1953, to July 31, 1963 - Thomas Eadie graduated from

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(Engineering) in 1923 and immediately signed on with

and over the next 30 years he occupied a succession of engineering and administrative positions before his appointment as president of

. In the 1950s, Mr. Eadie presided over the company's role in building the

Trans Canada Microwave Trans Canada Microwave or Trans-Canada Skyway was a microwave relay system built in the 1950s to carry telephone and television signals from Canada's east coast to its west coast. Built across the nation, the towers ranged in height from nine metr ...

System, now recognized as one of the major engineering feats of the last century.Bell Canada Our former Presidents

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