While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

While the game's origins may lie elsewhere, Montreal is at the centre of the development of the modern sport of ice hockey.

While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D. C., Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and across Europe, San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution, a melting pot of music, psychoactive drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics.

While Darrin decided to live on in Germany, David left to Montreal.

While construction continued, the land rising out of Montreal harbour was not owned by the Expo Corporation yet.

While in Montreal, Brel appeared with Raymond Devos at La Comédie Canadienne.

While early theories placed Huron origin in the St. Lawrence Valley, with some arguing for a presence near Montreal and other St. Lawrence Iroquoian peoples, archeological findings since the 1950s have demonstrated conclusively the Wyandot had no habitation there.

While there is much evidence of her having been raised in Montreal, in an alleged sworn deposition on October 8, 1917, a New York woman named Marie C. Russ did claim to be Florence's biological mother and referred to a Russ family burial plot in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, with lot number 17187 being reserved for Florence Russ, aka Florence La Badie.

While the band occasionally played live shows and continued to record, Poole chiefly stayed in Athens to continue work with Of Montreal while Rieger and Carter moved to New York City.

While living in Montreal, Quebec in 1966, Fraser and poet Leroy Johnson founded the literary magazine Intercourse: Contemporary Canadian Writing ( see Intercourse magazine ).

While visiting Montreal for Expo 67, General Charles de Gaulle proclaimed Vive le Québec libre!

While still with the St. Nicholas Club, Baker was offered a contract by the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey Association.

While rehearsing on a Montreal street, Minnelli taught Haim how to walk like someone with muscular dystrophy, despite stares from passersby.

While living in Montreal in the early 1970s he joined with authors Raymond Fraser, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf and Ray Smith to form the celebrated Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group.

While Plattsburgh is cited by American historians as being a relatively new city, the area became occupied somewhere after the arrival of Samuel de Champlain in 1609 and the beginning of the Fur Trade in Montreal in the mid to late 17th century.

While players from the Calgary Flames have won three times, players from the Edmonton Oilers have won two times, five other teams ( Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, and Winnipeg Jets ) have won it once.

While in Montreal, he befriended the Mohawks living on the Kahnawake Indian Reservation and made many sketches of them from which he later produced oil paintings.

While living in the rural area of St. Lazare outside of Montreal, Robinson became a co-founder with former teammate Steve Shutt and local veterinarian Dr. Gilbert Hallé of the Montreal Polo Club at Sainte-Marthe, Quebec.

While still in his thirties Allan became a director of the Bank of Montreal and remained on the board for ten years ( 1847 – 57 ).

While Galt had intended to secure the funds to build the Montreal and Kingston Railway, he did not have the resources to compete with Peto, Brassey Jackson and Betts.

While to Montreal it was the year of Expo, to Toronto it was the culmination of the Toronto Maple Leafs dynasty of the 1960s, with the team winning its fourth Stanley Cup in six years by defeating its arch-rival, the Montreal Canadiens, in the last all-Canadian Stanley Cup Final until 1986.

While performing in Kansas City in 1931, Skelton married his first wife, Edna Stillwell, who was an usher at the theater.

While some of the on-air talent changes on a regular basis the station's personnel has remained fairly constant, including programming director Randy Wynne, news director Rob Lorei and business manager Mercedes Skelton.

While performing as a dancer and rehearsal mistress, she noticed the importance of lighting, and studied dance lighting with Thomas Skelton, becoming his assistant.

* Performers Playing Opposite Sex: While several performers have won Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only two have won for playing a character of the opposite sex: Mary Martin in the title role of Peter Pan ( 1955 ) and Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray ( 2003 ).

While dating Renee ( and previously Edna ), he wholeheartedly spoiled them with whatever they wanted and vowed to give up his bar and take them away from Springfield forever, even if it means losing his own money and doing illegal acts to make more money.

While Dame Edna is a fictitious character whose life story has been entirely created by Barry Humphries, so complete is her identity as an individual that Macmillan published My Gorgeous Life, Edna's " autobiography " ( written by Humphries but credited to Edna herself ) on its non-fiction list.

While rapidly losing characteristics of a tropical cyclone, Edna traversed central New Brunswick.

While many indigenous Amazonian people say they received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits, researchers have devised a number of alternative theories to explain its discovery.

While multi-drop " work-arounds " have been devised, they have limitations in speed and compatibility.

While Bragg resigned himself and his army to the siege of the Union Army of the Cumberland in Chattanooga, Longstreet devised a strategy to prevent reinforcement and a lifting of the siege by Grant.

While Vice-President in the John Quincy Adams administration ( 1825 – 1829 ), he and other southerners devised a high tariff legislation that placed burdensome duties on selected New England imports.

While the Charleston as a dance probably came from the " star " or challenge dances that were all part of the African-American dance called Juba, the particular sequence of steps which appeared in Runnin ' Wild were probably newly devised for popular appeal.

While working upon the " Homeric catalogue ", as he called it, of the reinforcements coming to Minas Tirith, Tolkien devised the names Lossarnach, Anfalas, Lamedon and Pinnath Gelin, all of which appear on a new version of the map in final locations with the exception of Lamedon, first placed in northern Lebennin and later moved westward.

While in England, Andrews became interested in Pitman's new shorthand writing system and upon his return to the U. S. he taught and wrote about the shorthand writing system, and devised a popular system of phonographic reporting.

While working as an adviser to the United States military during World War I, he devised a program to help servicemen become more physically fit.

While Almon Strowger may have devised the concept, he was not alone in his endeavors and sought the assistance of his brother Arnold, nephew William and others with a knowledge of electricity and money to realize his concepts.

While there, she devised and helped implement a system of assigning stars a letter according to how much hydrogen could be observed in their spectra.

While the fall front desk was developed by placing a chest on its side, on a stand made for it, to its exact dimensions ( as is the case with the Bargueno desk ), the plantation desk form was devised by placing such a chest on its side, on a table a bit too deep for it.

While the basic elements of the adult game were devised by CUTwC in its early years, the rules have continued to be modified under the auspices of the various national tiddlywinks associations.

While larger rimfire calibers were made, such as the,. 30 rimfire,. 32 rimfire,. 38 rimfire. 41 Rimfire Short, the. 44 Henry Flat devised for the famous Winchester 1866 carbine, up to the. 58 Miller, the larger calibers were quickly replaced by centerfire versions, and today the. 22 caliber rimfires are all that survive of the early rimfires.

While several attempts to make up a true indoor football game have been made since shortly after American football was developed, the first version to meet with anything resembling true success and acceptance is Arena football, devised by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League.

While he is commonly credited with having devised the tactic of suicide air attacks ( kamikaze ) on Allied aircraft carriers, the project in fact predated his tenure and was one that he originally opposed as " heresy ".

While at the library, Panizzi undertook the creation of a new catalogue, based on the " Ninety-One Cataloguing Rules " ( 1841 ) which he devised with his assistants.

While cataloguing open clusters, he also devised a system for their classification according to the number of stars observed within them, how concentrated these stars are in the center of the cluster and the range of their apparent brightness.

While the initial developments leading to the 4 – 2 – 4 were devised by Márton Bukovi, the credit for creating the 4 – 2 – 4 lies with two different people: Flávio Costa, the Brazilian national coach in the early 1950s, as well as another Hungarian Béla Guttman.

While nobody really took him seriously, he thought in time it could happen and devised a plan to make it happen.

While the Tiberian system was devised for Tiberian Hebrew, it has become the dominant system for vocalizing all Jewish varieties of Hebrew, having long since eclipsed the Babylonian and Palestinian systems.

While various strategies have been devised in the last few decades to increase PFD wear rates, the observed rate has been relatively constant.

While doing research for her book Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand learned the operation of the train, and subsequently devised a fictional company-the " Twentieth Century Motor Company "-which would be important to the novel's plot.

While the clinic does offer conventional chemotherapy and ( via an associate center ) radiotherapy, it is best known for its " antineoplaston therapy ", a controversial pharmacological treatment using compounds called antineoplastons, devised by the clinic's founder Stanislaw Burzynski in the 1970s.

While Fennell was recuperating from hepatitis for six weeks in 1952, he devised a new symphonic band organization.