Official opening of the Queenston-Chippawa Power Development . QUEENSTON-CHIPPAWA DEVELOPMENT Fig. 2. Birds eye view showing intake from Niagara River above the Falls with Welland River section in foreground leading water to ControlWorks at upper end of Canal which stretches to Power House at Queenston where water is returned to the lower Niagara River, of the prominent circumstances incident to the in-ception and execution of the project. Although as early as 1900, a few prominentbusiness men in south-western Ontario commencedagitation looking towards the securing of powerfrom Niagara Falls i
Official opening of the Queenston-Chippawa Power Development . QUEENSTON-CHIPPAWA DEVELOPMENT Fig. 2. Birds eye view showing intake from Niagara River above the Falls with Welland River section in foreground leading water to ControlWorks at upper end of Canal which stretches to Power House at Queenston where water is returned to the lower Niagara River, of the prominent circumstances incident to the in-ception and execution of the project. Although as early as 1900, a few prominentbusiness men in south-western Ontario commencedagitation looking towards the securing of powerfrom Niagara Falls in order to meet the increasing demands for cheaper power of industrial centresat tliat time chiefly dependent for their jKJwer uponimported coal from the United States, it was notuntil 1903 that the Government of the Provinceof Ontario authorized the appointment, by thevarious interested municipalities, of a Commission QUEENSTON-CHIPPAWA DEVELOPMENTTypical Cross-Sections of Power Canal.
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