Official opening of the Queenston-Chippawa Power Development . OUEENSTON—CHIPPAWA DEVELOPMENT Fig 4 Birds-eye view of Entrance to Canalshowing mouth of Welland River with location of Intake at top of picture. Water now flowsinto the mouth of Welland River, thus reversing the original direction of OUEENSTON—CHIPPAWA DEVELOPh/IENTFig. 5. Typical section of completed canal through deep rock cut, showing smooth concrete lining in lower portion. 7 to investigate and report upon the proposal thatNiagara Power be supphed for municipal and in-dustrial purposes. The report being duly preparedsho
Official opening of the Queenston-Chippawa Power Development . OUEENSTON—CHIPPAWA DEVELOPMENT Fig 4 Birds-eye view of Entrance to Canalshowing mouth of Welland River with location of Intake at top of picture. Water now flowsinto the mouth of Welland River, thus reversing the original direction of OUEENSTON—CHIPPAWA DEVELOPh/IENTFig. 5. Typical section of completed canal through deep rock cut, showing smooth concrete lining in lower portion. 7 to investigate and report upon the proposal thatNiagara Power be supphed for municipal and in-dustrial purposes. The report being duly preparedshowed that the proposition promised success. Con-sequently, in 1906, the Provincial Governmentcreated the Hydro-Electric Power Commission ofOntario to act on behalf of the Province asTrustee for municipalities, and in due course legis-lation was extended empowering the Commissionto proceed. When the Hydro-Electric Power Commissionbegan marketing power to meet the growing muni-cipal and industrial needs of south-western On-tario, the contract it made for the delivery of100,000 horsepower was referred to as an evi-dence of ill-advised procedure, but within fiveyears the whole 100,000 horsepower had beenmarketed. As additional power was providedthere were always those—and they were not with-out i
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