Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) was the telephone provider in most of Alberta from 1906 to 1991.
AGT was formed by the Liberal government of Alexander Cameron Rutherford in 1906[1] following the acquisitions by the government of several independent telephone companies. In 1908, AGT acquired the Bell Telephone Company's Alberta operations[2][3] for $675,000.[4] It eventually served almost all telephone customers in Alberta outside of the Edmonton area, where telephone service was operated by the Edmonton municipal government.
Alberta Government Telephones was directly managed by the province's Department of Public Works as a public utility until 1958, when it was transformed into the Alberta Government Telephones Commission, a crown corporation.[1]