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Title: Amidst the Laurentians; being a guide to Shawinigan Falls and points on the Great Northern Railway of Canada. By N.M. Hinshelwood. Illustrated from the author's own pholographs, with a few exceptions
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hinshelwood, N. M
Subjects: Laurentian Mountains
Publisher: (Montreal Herald Press)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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E N C, I N 1-: b: R I N G \V () R K s AT vS 11A W1XI (; A N V A IJ.S. X ihe way to the l-aUs fronthe hotel, there can beseen everywhere e v i -dence of the huge en^ineering work u n -dertaken, and it may be as wellhere to give a brief outline ofwhat has been done for thisProvince by the ShawiniganWater and Power Com-pany, of Montreal. TheCompany began operationsin 1S99, and, two yearslater, had practicallyc o ni p 1 eted the firstgreat instalment oftheir intended devel-opment of 100,000horse-power. Thenatural featuresof the land made this locality an ideal spot for the develop- m e n t of waterpow- eratcom- p a r a - t i vely 1 o w cost. The hillwhich fahaway In Hip ualei-flow I HZ I I i/>< haf it doesbelow theFalls ; andthen broad-ening out un-til the lowerpart runs par-allel with theupper, but onehundred and fiftyfeet below ; only re-quired the cutting ofa canal from its high-er level to the edge ofthe hill which falls awayto the water flowing at itsbase, to give a min

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