. Official proceedings . y in the form of light and strongstructural alloys, the two North American producers of virginaluminum are engaged in an extensive program of plant expan-sion, and, by the nature of the reduction process, these i)lansprimarily involve increases in the recjuired supplies of electricalenergy. To this end is being developed one of the largest water-power sites in the world. Known as Chute a Caron, this devel-opment is located in the Province of Quebec on the SagueniiyRiver, 80 miles above its confluence with the St. Lawrence and25 miles below Lake St. John. It is within 2
. Official proceedings . y in the form of light and strongstructural alloys, the two North American producers of virginaluminum are engaged in an extensive program of plant expan-sion, and, by the nature of the reduction process, these i)lansprimarily involve increases in the recjuired supplies of electricalenergy. To this end is being developed one of the largest water-power sites in the world. Known as Chute a Caron, this devel-opment is located in the Province of Quebec on the SagueniiyRiver, 80 miles above its confluence with the St. Lawrence and25 miles below Lake St. John. It is within 20 miles of deep-water navigation at Ha Ha Ray. (See Fig. 1.) This project is ])art of a general ])rogram begun in liciT)when the Aluminum Company of America was attracted to thisregion by the combined advantages of chea]) electric i)ower andeasy access to the ocean trade routes of the world. The Alu-minum Company of Canada (then a subsidiary of the .AluminumCompany of America, but later sold to a Canadian firm, ;\lu- 173.
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