Area code 709
Area code 709 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the entire Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
History[]
The first telephone system was installed in Newfoundland in 1885, but domestic long-distance calls within the Dominion of Newfoundland could be placed on a limited basis only in 1921. The first long-distance call from Newfoundland to Canada was made on January 10, 1939 by using a shortwave radio link operated by the Canadian Marconi Company in Montréal. Shortwave radio also carried calls from St. John's to London, England.
After Newfoundland joined Confederation with Canada, the first cross-province long-distance call was placed from St. John's to Port aux Basques in 1949.[1]
When planning was completed for the original NANP area codes in 1947, no provisions had been made to include Newfoundland in the continental numbering plan, which later became the North American Numbering Plan. The Newfoundland telephone system was entirely manual, and dial telephones came to St. John's only in 1948.[1] Confederation with the Dominion of Canada was enacted in 1949.
The Maritime provinces of Canada received the area code 902, which remains in use throughout Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. New Brunswick and Newfoundland were split from area code 902 to area code 506 in 1955. In 1962, Labrador was split off and combined with Newfoundland to form a new numbering plan area, with own area code 709.[2] Canadian direct-distance dial locations gradually increased over the next several years, beginning in 1958 with the country's largest cities, Toronto and Montreal. The area codes served mostly for operator routing purposes until customer dialing of long-distance calls became common in the 1960s.
The incumbent local exchange carrier for area code 709 is Bell Aliant, which is owned by Bell Canada, which was formed in 1999 as a result of a merger that included NewTel Communications (previously Newfoundland Telephone). There had been as many as nine companies in Newfoundland and Labrador until 1951. NewTel acquired the last independent company in 1988.
Area code 709 is expected to be exhausted by 2024, when Newfoundland and Labrador will receive an overlay area code, and ten-digit dialing will become necessary in the province. Area code 879 has been reserved as the second code for the purpose of that overlay, but the relief has been deferred indefinitely.[3] For now, that and three other Canadian area codes, 506, 807, and 867 still have not been overlaid and so use seven-digit dialling.
The province has the prefix 988, hence regardless of any delays of any necessary overlay, ten-digit dialling will likely need to be implemented soon, as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has recommended using a three-digit code, most likely 9-8-8, for suicide prevention, after the United States Federal Communications Commission approved the same code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in that country.[4]
Service area and central office prefixes[]
- Arnold's Cove: 463, 556
- Badger: 539
- Baie Verte: 297, 529, 532, 554
- Battle Harbour: 972
- Bay L'Argent: 373, 461
- Bay Roberts: 222, 680, 683, 703, 786, 787, 788, 983
- Beaumont: 264
- Belleoram: 881
- Bellevue: 442, 762
- Bell Island: 488, 849
- Birchy Bay: 659, 761
- Bishop's Falls: 258, 395
- Black Duck Cove: 877
- Black Tickle: 471
- Bonavista: 218, 468, 470, 476, 704
- Botwood: 257, 389
- Boyd's Cove: 259, 656
- Branch: 338
- Brent's Cove: 575, 661
- Brig Bay: 247
- Brigus: 527, 528
- Brown's Arm: 654
- Buchans: 672, 719
- Burgeo: 886
- Burin: 342, 891, 894
- Burlington: 239, 252
- Burnt Islands, Isle aux Morts, Margaree: 698
- Campbellton: 261, 262
- Cape Broyle: 432, 756
- Carbonear: 501, 595, 596, 597, 945, 978
- Carmanville: 291, 534, 858
- Cartwright: 938
- Catalina: 469, 477
- Centreville: 522, 561, 678
- Chance Cove: 460, 768
- Change Islands: 621
- Chapel Arm: 592, 593
- Charlottetown (Bonavista Bay): 664, 667
- Charlottetown (Labrador): 949
- Churchill Falls: 735, 925, 977
- Clarenville: 425, 426, 427, 429, 433, 466, 766, 907, 979
- Clarke's Head: 676, 767
- Codroy: 955
- Come By Chance: 472, 542, 557
- Comfort Cove-Newstead: 244, 246
- Conche: 622
- Cook's Harbour: 249
- Coomb's Cove: 887
- Corner Brook: 216, 289, 388, 412, 612, 619, 630, 632, 634, 637, 638, 639, 640, 660, 785
- Cottrell's Cove: 485, 491
- Cow Head: 243
- Daniel's Harbour: 898
- Deer Lake: 215, 299, 391, 633, 635, 636
- : 272, 644
- Eastport: 303, 526, 677
- Englee: 866
- English Harbour East: 245, 376
- English Harbour West: 888
- Fair Haven: 878
- Fermeuse: 363, 718
- Flatrock: 437
- Fleur de Lys: 253
- Flower's Cove: 456
- Fogo: 266, 270, 863, 989
- Forteau: 931
- Francois: 842
- : 934
- Freshwater: 213, 226, 227, 230, 286, 980
- Gambo: 524, 564, 674
- Gander: 234, 235, 256, 287, 381, 422, 424, 431, 571, 651
- Garden Cove: 549, 550
- Garnish: 328, 826
- Gaultois: 841
- Glenwood: 574, 679
- Glovertown: 520, 533, 563, 985
- Grand Bank: 353, 377, 832
- Grand Bruit: 492
- Grand Falls: 290, 292, 293, 358, 393, 486, 489, 572
- Grandois: 423
- Great Harbour Deep: 843
- Green Island Cove: 475
- Greenspond: 223, 269
- Grey River: 296
- Griquet: 623
- Hampden: 455
- Hant's Harbour: 586
- Happy Valley-Goose Bay: 217, 220, 414, 896, 897, 899, 929, 982, 998
- Harbour Breton: 323, 885
- Harbour Main: 229, 231
- Hare Bay: 523, 537
- Harry's Harbour: 624
- Hawke's Bay: 248
- Heart's Content: 583, 585
- Heart's Delight: 588, 590
- Hermitage: 880, 883
- Hickman's Harbour: 547, 559
- Hillgrade: 628, 827
- Hillview: 434, 546
- Hopedale: 933
- Horwood: 671, 892
- Humber Arm South: 789
- Jackson's Arm: 459
- Jamestown: 473
- Jeffrey's: 274, 645, 775
- Joe Batt's Arm: 658
- King's Cove: 447, 448
- King's Point: 268, 481
- Labrador City - Wabush: 280, 282, 285, 288, 413, 930, 944, 962, 987
- Ladle Cove: 670, 874
- Lamaline: 369, 857
- : 927
- La Poile: 496
- Lark Harbour: 681
- La Scie: 566, 675
- Leading Tickles: 483
- Lewisporte: 535, 541, 569
- Little Bay: 267
- Little Bay Islands: 626
- Little Harbour: 465
- Little Heart's Ease: 435, 548
- Long Harbour: 228
- Long Pond: 240, 284, 480, 744, 781, 834, 835
- Lourdes: 271, 642
- Lower Island Cove: 584
- Lumsden: 281, 530
- Main Brook: 865
- Makkovik: 923
- Mary's Harbour: 921
- Marystown: 276, 277, 279, 332, 357, 567, 909, 981
- McCallum: 846
- McIvers: 688
- Millertown: 852
- Milltown: 882, 889
- Ming's Bight: 254
- Monkstown: 356
- Monroe: 663
- Moreton's Harbour: 684, 831
- Mount Carmel: 521, 578
- Musgrave Harbour: 655
- Musgravetown: 439, 467
- Nain: 922
- Natuashish: 478
- New Chelsea: 586, 591
- New Harbour: 580, 582
- Newman's Cove: 445, 446
- Nipper's Harbour: 255
- Norman's Bay: 988
- Norris Arm: 653
- North West River: 497
- Old Perlican: 587, 620
- Pacquet: 251, 565
- Paradise River: 845
- Pasadena: 394, 686
- Petite Forte: 428
- Pinsent's Arm: 951
- Plate Cove: 544, 545
- Point Leamington: 484
- Pool's Cove: 665
- Port Albert: 241
- Port au Port: 278, 648
- Port aux Basques: 694, 695, 696
- Port Blandford: 347, 543
- Port Hope Simpson: 960
- Port Rexton: 436, 464, 562
- Port Saunders: 298, 861
- Portugal Cove: 242, 560, 773, 895
- Postville: 479
- Pouch Cove: 232, 335
- Princeton: 462, 558
- Raleigh: 452
- Ramea: 625
- Red Bay: 920
- Reef's Harbour: 847
- Rencontre East: 848
- Rigolet: 947
- River of Ponds: 225
- Robert's Arm: 650, 652, 869
- Rocky Harbour: 419, 458
- Roddickton: 457, 774
- Rose Blanche: 956
- Rushoon: 374, 443
- Seal Cove (Fortune Bay): 851
- Seal Cove (White Bay): 531
- Seldom: 627
- : 961
- Sop's Arm: 482
- South Brook: 657, 868
- Springdale: 668, 673, 692, 867, 990
- St. Alban's: 324, 500, 538
- St. Anthony: 212, 449, 450, 454
- St. Brendan's: 669
- St. Bride's: 337, 519
- Stephenville: 214, 283, 641, 643, 649, 721
- Stephenville Crossing: 444, 646
- St. George's: 275, 647
- St. John's (including some suburbs): 221, 237, 260, 273, 314, 315, 325, 327, 330, 341, 351, 352, 364, 368, 383, 415, 551, 552, 553, 570, 576, 579, 631, 682, 685, 687, 689, 690, 691, 693, 697, 699, 700, 701, 702, 705, 722, 724, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 733, 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 743, 745, 746, 747, 748, 749, 750, 752, 753, 754, 757, 758, 763, 764, 765, 769, 770, 771, 772, 777, 778, 782, 793, 800, 833, 844, 850, 853, 864, 948, 986, 997, 999
- St. Lawrence: 320, 359, 873
- St. Lewis: 939
- St. Mary's: 295, 525
- Summerford: 629, 723
- Summerside: 783
- Terra Nova: 265
- Terrenceville: 375, 662
- Torbay: 233, 400, 401, 437, 577
- Trepassey: 326, 438, 717
- Triton: 263, 421, 441
- Trout River: 451
- Twillingate: 304, 884, 893
- Upper Island Cove: 573, 589, 594, 720, 910, 984
- Victoria Conception Bay North: 596, 595
- Wesleyville: 348, 536, 540
- Western Bay: 598
- Westport: 224, 236
- Whitbourne: 759, 760
- Wild Cove: 329
- William's Harbour: 924
- Winterton: 583
- Witless Bay: 238, 334, 493
- Woody Point: 453
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b "Telegraph and Telephone Companies". Unofficial Clarenville webpage.
- ^ http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/areacodes/history.area.splits.2-96
- ^ Wall, Lukas (May 31, 2016). "In the 709 area? You'll soon need to dial 10 digits". CBC News. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2021/2021-191.htm
External links[]
North: Country code +299 in Greenland | ||
West: 418/581, 819, 902/782 | Area code 709 | East: Atlantic Ocean |
South: 418/581, country code +508 in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Atlantic Ocean | ||
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island area codes: 782/902 | ||
Quebec area codes: 367/418/581, 438/514, 450/579, 819/873 |
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