The Parks & Recreation Department of the City of Brantford collects, preserves, researches and exhibits, for the education and enjoyment of the public, the historic resources of the Bell Homestead National Historic Site for the purpose of interpreting the 1870 to 1881 household of Alexander Melville and Eliza Bell, the events surrounding the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, and the origins of Canadian Telephone operations to 1880.