Main entry:

Denison, Merrill, 1893-1975.

Title & Author:

The people's power; the history of Ontario Hydro.

Publication:

[Toronto] McClelland & Stewart [1960]

Description:

295 pages illustrations 24 cm

Notes:
The seed bed -- Tools of progress -- Ontario claimes its share -- Why not public ownership? -- The issue joined -- Hydro is born -- The decisive years -- Hydro's first contracts -- The bankers view with alarm -- Lights on -- Toward maturity -- The conflict widens -- More power to win the war -- The largest hydro-electric plant in the world -- The radials dispute -- The end of an era -- Hydro's master builder -- Hydro's foes under fire -- A search for power -- Expansion and consolidation -- The Depression years -- Between two fires -- Repudiation and retrenchment -- Hydro mobilizes its kilowatts -- The post-war scramble for power -- International agreement -- Golden jubilee -- The seaway at last -- Hydro is still young.
Appendix: Chairmen, commissioners and vice-chairment, secretaries and chief executives (June 1906-Jan. 1960) -- Names of chairs from fourteen municipal commissions which entered into contracts with Ontario Hydro in May 1908 -- Statistical summary (1919, 1939, 1959).

Subject:

Ontario. Hydro-electric Power Commission.
Ontario Hydro.
Electric utilities Ontario.
Services publics d'électricité Ontario.
Electric utilities
Ontario

Form/genre:

Book jackets (Binding) Canada 20th century Specimens.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 141342
Call No.: PO9709
Status: Available