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The Queenston-Chippawa hydro-electric development

The Sir Adam Beck generating stations at Queenston (Ontario side) with the Robert Moses plant across the Niagara River, photographed in 2023.
The Sir Adam Beck generating stations at Queenston (Ontario side) with the Robert Moses plant across the Niagara River, photographed in 2023. Robert Moses Power Station and Sir Adam Beck Station from south, July 2023 · Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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The Queenston-Chippawa hydro-electric development on the Niagara River, planned by Ontario’s Hydro-Electric Power Commission to meet rising demand in Toronto and southwestern Ontario, was an early hydro-electric mega-project. It required construction equipment, power units and a power canal on a scale not seen before.

Scope & context

The development as recognized in its designation, not Ontario Hydro’s later history.

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