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"Charmed With Its Loveliness" ~ Late Century: 1860s - 1890s 215 Alexander Graham Bell receiving the first successful telephone call between two communities, August 3, 1876, from Brantford to the to the Wallace Ellis store in Mount Pleasant. Behind the counter are Isabella Ellis who was the telegraph operator, and her father A. Wallace Ellis. Interested spectators dressed in their finery for this momentous event but looking rather sceptical are Dolly and Mettie McEwen, Lizzie Mussen, W illiam Biggar and family, Mr. and Mrs. H. MacKenzie, the Bryce and Devlin boys, and Messrs. Phelps and Townsend. From a watercolour by J. C. H. Forster, 1962. Courtesy Bell Canada Historical Collection. This first successful test encouraged Bell to demonstrate his telephone between Brantford and the Bell homestead on Tutela Heights the next evening, particularly since his previous tests in the United States had failed. And after the success of that experiment he arranged for a third test a week later over a much longer distance, between Brantford and Paris. That experiment is now recognised as the world's first long distance telephone call. Although the first successful test of the telephone in Mount Pleasant has often been overshadowed by the milestone test associated with Paris, the experiment in the Ellis store has been credited as the pivotal test that