The first commercial telephone service in Canada, the first telephone exchange in the British Empire, and the second telephone exchange in all of North America were each established in the city between 1877–78.
加拿大首個商營電話服務公司、大英帝國首個電話交換局以及全北美洲第二個電話交換局皆於1877-78年之間在哈密爾頓市成立。