Editing Bell Canada (section)

====Quebec and Ontario====
[[File:Campus Bell in Montreal 1.jpg|thumb|Bell Canada's headquarters located on [[Nuns' Island]] in Montreal, Quebec.]]
[[File:BellPromenade.jpg|thumb|A Bell Store in [[The Promenade Shopping Centre]], [[Thornhill, Ontario]]]]
Independent companies appeared in many areas of Ontario, Quebec and Maritime provinces without adequate Bell Canada service. During the 20th century Bell acquired most of the independent companies in Ontario and Quebec, most notably the purchase of Nexxlink Technologies, a Montreal-based integrated IT solutions and telecommunications provider founded by Karol Brassard.<ref>{{cite press release
  | title = Bell Canada to Acquire Nexxlink Technologies Inc.
  | publisher = BCE, Inc.
  | date = December 9, 2004
  | url = http://www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/bell-canada-to-acquire-nexxlink-technologies-inc
  | access-date = April 2, 2013
  | archive-date = December 27, 2012
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121227005535/http://www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/bell-canada-to-acquire-nexxlink-technologies-inc
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref> Alongside the acquisition of Charon Systems, Nexxlink now operates today as Bell Business Solutions—a division of Bell Canada.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/116/116995.html|title=INDUSTRY CENTER – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES |publisher=Yahoo! Finance }}</ref> Quebec, however, still has large swaths of relatively rural areas served by Telus Québec (formerly Québec Telephone, later acquired by [[Telus Communications]]) and [[Télébec]] (now owned by Bell Canada via Bell Aliant) and by some 20 small independent companies. As of 1980, Ontario still had some 30 independent companies, and Bell has not acquired any; the smaller ones were sold to larger independents with larger capital resources. [[Cellcom Communications]] is the largest franchisee of Bell Canada, currently operating 25 Bell stores in both Québec and Ontario regions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cellcom.ca/en/about-cellcom-communications |title=Bell Canada Franchisee |access-date=April 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405125045/http://www.cellcom.ca/en/about-cellcom-communications |archive-date=April 5, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>