The Bell family (including Alexander Graham Bell) moves from Scotland to Canada, near Montreal. Alexander finds work in Boston teaching the deaf to speak. Teaching the deaf to speak is and will remain his primary goal in life and career. Incidentally, he will also be the inventor of the telephone (until the U.S. Congress awards the invention to Meucci). Alexander Graham Bell also works for the journal Science, establishing it on solid financial footing, and will also direct the Smithsonian Institution for several years. He also wins the prestigious Volta Prize, established by Napoleon Bonaparte, for the invention of the telephone.
