Listing the telephone and Alexander Graham Bell as Canadian is a real stretch:

"Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States"
http://www.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/bell.html

"On March 10, 1876, in Boston, Massachusetts, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Thomas Watson fashioned the device itself; a crude thing made of a wooden stand, a funnel, a cup of acid, and some copper wire"
http://www.privateline.com/TelephoneHistory/History1.htm

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - Robert Heinlein