[1] Shortly after his arrival in Edmonton, Taylor established the first telegraph, telephone, and electricity systems.

Alex Taylor, Dominion Telegraph Agent, brought the first two telephones made of Spanish mahogany, and asked store owner Henry William McKenney of St. Albert to keep the device in St. Albert.

Taylor, who, at the time was working for the Dominion Telegraph and Signal Service proposed running a telephone line from his office to St. Albert, Alberta.

January 3, 1885, the two tested the line, the first successful call in Northern Alberta.

In 1893, the Edmonton District Telephone Company was granted a charter and less than a decade later it was operational 24 hours a day and provided service to nearby rural areas.