 The first telephone installed in Montréal was one Duquet designed, and he followed with installing phones and phone lines in the area.At about the same time as Alexander Graham Bell, he developed a telephone connecting his home and shop.Bell's father, Melville Bell, responsible for the Canadian interests of Graham Bell, who had recently moved to Boston, offered Duquet to sell him the rights to the telephone on Canadian soil, for the sum of 20,000 dollars.