You heard the story about having telephones put in there [the Arctic], but the [Inuit] people didn't want any private phones. Everybody wanted a party line so they could listen in to everybody else. They refused to have any private phones up in the Eskimo country. They insisted that everybody's conversation be available to everybody simultaneously.
“Jean Pare interview”, in Forces magazine, a Hydro Quebec publication, No.22, (1973), p 24
Year: 1973
Compiled by William Kuhns
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