Canada's Telecommunications Hall of Fame is a Canadian not-for-profit foundation that seeks to foster a greater awareness of Canada's role in developing and innovating telecommunications. The foundation has two main programs - an education and outreach program, and a laureate program, which honours historically important figures in the field.
Nortel, the Communications Research Centre, Alexander Graham Bell, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, Edward S. Rogers, Sr., Edward Samuel Rogers (Ted Rogers), Donald Hings and Michael Kedar are among those honoured.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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