Editing Alexander Graham Bell (section)

==Canada==
{{Main|Bell Homestead National Historic Site}}
[[File:The Bell Homestead National Historic Site, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, incl. Visitor Ctr, Henderson Home, Carriage House and Dreaming Place IMG 0039 09.JPG|thumb|[[Bell Homestead National Historic Site|Melville House]], the Bells' first home in North America, now a [[National Historic Sites of Canada|National Historic Site of Canada]]]]

In 1870, 23-year-old Bell travelled with his parents and his brother's widow, Caroline Margaret Ottaway,{{sfn|Mackay|1997|p=50}} to [[Paris, Ontario]],{{sfn|Gray|2006|p=21}} to stay with Thomas Henderson, a [[Baptist]] minister and family friend.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reverend Thomas Henderson House |url=https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10130 |website=[[Canada's Historic Places]] |access-date=August 5, 2020}}</ref> The Bells soon purchased a farm of {{convert|10.5|acre|ha}} at Tutelo Heights (now called Tutela Heights), near [[Brantford]], Ontario. The property consisted of an orchard, large farmhouse, stable, pigsty, hen-house, and a [[carriage house]], which bordered the [[Grand River (Ontario)|Grand River]].{{sfn|Mackay|1997|p=61}}{{refn| The estate, dating from 1858, is in the present day located at 94 Tutela Heights Road, Brantford, and is now known as the "Bell Homestead", and formally as the [[Bell Homestead National Historic Site|Bell Homestead National Historic Site of Canada]]. It received its historical designation from the Government of Canada on June 1, 1996.<ref>{{CRHP|12773|Bell Homestead National Historic Site of Canada|September 17, 2015}}</ref>|group=N}}

At the homestead, Bell set up a workshop in the converted carriage house near what he called his "dreaming place",<ref>{{cite book |last=Wing |first=Chris |title=Alexander Graham Bell at Baddeck |location=Baddeck, Nova Scotia |publisher=Christopher King |date=1980 |page=10}}</ref> a large hollow nestled in trees at the back of the property above the river.{{sfn|Groundwater|2005|p=34}} Despite his frail condition upon arriving in Canada, Bell found the climate and environs to his liking and rapidly improved.{{sfn|Mackay|1997|p=62}}{{refn| Bell would later write that he had come to Canada a "dying man".|group=N}} He continued his interest in the study of the human voice, and when he discovered the [[Six Nations 40, Ontario|Six Nations Reserve]] across the river at [[Onondaga (village)|Onondaga]], learned the [[Mohawk language]] and translated its unwritten vocabulary into Visible Speech symbols. For his work, Bell was awarded the title of Honorary Chief and participated in a ceremony where he donned a [[Mohawk nation|Mohawk]] headdress and danced traditional dances.{{sfn|Groundwater|2005|p=35}}{{refn|Bell was thrilled at his recognition by the Six Nations Reserve and throughout his life would launch into a Mohawk war dance when he was excited.|group=N}}

After setting up his workshop, Bell continued experiments based on Helmholtz's work with electricity and sound.{{Sfn|Wing|1980|p=10}} He also modified a [[Pump organ|melodeon]] (a type of pump organ) to transmit its music electrically over a distance.<ref name="Waldi-undated">{{cite news |last=Waldie |first=Jean H. |title=Historic Melodeon Is Given To Bell Museum |publisher=likely published either by the [[London Free Press]] or by the Brantford Expositor, date unknown}}</ref> Once the family was settled, Bell and his father made plans to establish a teaching practice and in 1871, he accompanied his father to Montreal, where Melville was offered a position to teach his System of Visible Speech.