Brian Baker discusses the arrival of the telephone in Innisfil in 1949 via the Beeton Telephone Company, which had an office in Cookstown. He describes the use of a party line with typically 8 to 10 families on one line, each with a distinctive ring. This of course meant others could listen in on conversations, and Brian recalls a humourous story of one man commenting aloud during a phone conversation that a certain neighbour was listening in, and the eavesdropping neighbour was so startled that she exclaimed "I am not!"
