The Hydro-Electric Development and Transmission Lines of the Canadian Niagara Power Company

As soon as the hydro-electric development of The Niagara Falls Power Company, at Niagara Falls, N. Y., was fairly under construction, the attention of capitalists was attracted to the water-power possibilities of the Canadian side of the Niagara River. The conditions for development there differed materially from those on the American side, owing to the fact that all the land adjoining the Horseshoe, or Canadian, Falls was and is owned by the Province of Ontario, being reserved as a public park and administered by a Park Commission. As is evident by an inspection of Fig. 1, the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park embraced all the most desirable sites for power-plants, and, as the entire lower bank of the gorge from the Falls to a point near Lake Ontario was included in the Park Reserve, it was evident that a hydro-electric development could take place only by arrangement with the Park Commissioners.