Thomas Wardrope Eadie

{{Short description|Canadian businessman (1898–1986)}}

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| image = Thomas Wardrope Eadie.png

| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|7|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario

| death_date = {{death date and age|1986|9|6|1898|7|26|df=y}}

| death_place = Montreal, Quebec

| education = McGill University (BSc 1923)

| spouse = {{marriage|Gladys Dorothy Macfarlane|1927}}

}}

Thomas Wardrope Eadie (26 July 1898 – 6 September 1986) the son of Robert and Flora (Stewart). He served as president of Bell Canada from July 1, 1953, to July 31, 1963. Eadie graduated from McGill University (Engineering) in 1923 and immediately signed on with Bell Canada and over the next 30 years he occupied a succession of engineering and administrative positions before his appointment as president of Bell Canada. In the 1950s, Eadie presided over the company's role in building the Trans Canada Microwave System, now recognized as one of the major engineering feats of the last century.[http://www.bce.ca/data/documents/history/bio_presidents_en.pdf Bell Canada Presidents & CEOs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927221011/http://www.bce.ca/data/documents/history/bio_presidents_en.pdf |date=2011-09-27 }}["Too startling for belief!" : A story of telephone development in Canada. 75th anniversary: April 29, 1955 by Eadie, Thomas Wardrope Published New York, : Newcomen Society in North America, 1955][http://www.acilr-cdril.com/CD_No1/A_Web/A_Web1/Bell/BellHistPr%E9sident_Eng_.htm Bell Canada Our former Presidents] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120718165925/http://www.acilr-cdril.com/CD_No1/A_Web/A_Web1/Bell/BellHistPr%E9sident_Eng_.htm |date=2012-07-18 }}