The Aluminum Co. of Canada, Limited, has a complete plant for the manufacture of aluminum and aluminium wires and cables. This Company uses for this purpose 50,000 horse power of Shawinigan power.

The Canada Carbide Company, Limited, a subsidiary of the Company, has extensive works for the manufacture of calcium carbide, utilizing over 30,000 horse power in this operation. A large portion of the Canada Carbide Company's output is converted into acetylene gas and sold to the Canadian Electro Products Company, Limited, for manufacture into various chemicals. The Carbide Company also sells its product throughout Canada, exports to the United States, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the world.

The Canadian Electro Products Company, Limited, also owned by the Company, has a large and modern electro-chemical plant for the manufacture of acetaldehyde, acetic acid and the derivatives from acetylene gas. The Company has recently developed its processes so as to largely increase the capacity of its works, which are amongst the largest of their kind. The chemicals produced by the Canadian Electro Products Company, Limited, are distributed throughout Canada and the United States and exported all over the world.

The Canadian Carborundum Company operates a large plant producing carborundum, aloxite and ferro-silicon. The Company utilizes 12,000 horse power in its electric furnaces.

A large part of the power supplied to the Montreal Light, Heat & Power Consolidated, is delivered by them to the Montreal Tramways and used for electric railway purposes on the Island of Montreal.

Three electric railways, operated by subsidiary Companies, receive Shawinigan power. The Shawinigan Falls Terminal Railway handles all switching and distribution of freight at Shawinigan Falls. The Three Rivers Traction Company operates the street railway system in the city of Three Rivers. Through the Quebec Power Company the Company operates the city street railway and inter-urban railways in Quebec City and district.

Chronological History

1898-Charter obtained.

1900-Power developments began.

1901-First delivery of hydraulic power to Aluminum Company of Canada

Limited.

Shawinigan Falls Terminal Railway commenced operation.

1902-First delivery of electric power; ten thousand horse power from two units. Belgo-Canadian Paper Co.'s mills started.

1903-First delivery of power to Montreal at fifty thousand volts.

First furnace of Canada Carbide Company Limited started.

1904-Third generator installed.

Second fifty thousand volt transmission line to Montreal constructed. 1905-Fourth generator installed.

1906-Fifth generator installed.

Transmission lines to Thetford Mines and district on south shore of
St. Lawrence River constructed, crossing river with submarine cables.
Hydraulic power provided for Aluminum Co. of Canada, Limited.
increased to thirty thousand horse power.

1907-Acquisition of the North Shore Power Co., at Three Rivers and entry of the Company into that City.

Additional generating capacity at Shawinigan Falls.

Placing of the Company's common shares on a dividend basis. 1909-Sixth generator installed, completing power house No. 1.

1910-Extension to forebay and construction of new bulkhead and gatehouse for power house No. 2.

1911-Power house No. 2 constructed with two-twenty thousand horse power units installed.

Two-circuit, one hundred thousand volt steel tower transmission line to Montreal constructed.

1912-Third unit in power house No. 2 installed.

Concrete and steel dams constructed at Shawinigan Falls, increasing head to one hundred and fifty feet.

1914-Sixty thousand volt steel tower transmission line constructed to Three Rivers.

Power house No. 2 enlarged and units numbers four and five installed. 1915-Purchase of Grès Falls power site.

Contract signed with Laurentide Power Company Limited for control of the surplus power at Grand'mère.

The Public Service Corporation of Quebec formed to take over the Dorchester Electric Company, operating in Quebec City.

1916-Sixty thousand volt steel tower transmission line to Quebec constructed. 1917-Gouin storage dam at La Loutre, at the headwaters of the St. Maurice, completed, increasing the amount of power available at Shawinigan Falls in low water periods by one hundred thousand horse power.

1918-Overhead crossing constructed over St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers in one span four thousand eight hundred feet long, with towers three hundred and seventy-five feet high, doing away with submarine cables. 1920-Electric steam generators developed.

1922-Sixth unit installed in No. 2 power house; forty-five thousand horse power. Second two-circuit, one hundred thousand volt steel tower transmission line to Montreal constructed.

Construction started in Autumn on the Grès Falls and La Gabelle develop

ment.

1923-Quebec Power Company, formerly the Public Service Corporation of Quebec, secured control of the Quebec Railway, Light, Heat & Power Co. 1924-La Gabelle development completed with four-thirty thousand horse power units installed.

Additional sixty thousand volt steel tower transmission lines constructed
to Three Rivers.

New power development at St. Narcisse on Batiscan River started.
Sixty thousand volt transmission line from Hemmings Falls to Windsor
Mills constructed.

1925-Quebec Power Co. purchased Laurentian Power Co. plant at St. Féréol;
(below Quebec); installed capacity twenty thousand horse power.
1926-Development of 25,000 H.P. by North Shore Power Co at Narcisse.

Shawinigan and "Carillon."

The relation of the Shawinigan Water and Power Company to the "Carillon" question was thus set forth recently by Financial Counsel, Montreal:

"Leases granted in 1911 and 1921. The first definite contact with the water power at Carillon was established in 1911, when a lease was granted the National Hydro-Electric Company, authorizing it to develop 250 horse power as a minimum. This work was proceeded with and as a result the company holds a lease that carries on until 1974. In 1921 the National Hydro was granted a new Federal lease for a greater development (some 250,000 H.P.) comprehending Grenville Rapids as well as Carillon. The 1921 lease required that actual construction operations be commenced by December 1, 1923, and 25,000 horsepower developed four years later. For various reasons, but mainly because of lack of market for the output, the company did not start construction operations within the stipulated time. It sought, and was granted, extensions in 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926. The final extension required that actual construction work be commenced by the first of May, 1927. The Company was ready to do so and had its plans submitted and accepted from an engineering standpoint. It only required Ministerial authority to proceed, but the Government refused actually to grant this necessary authority and, shortly after the first of May, notified the company that its 1921 lease was lapsed.

"Interprovincial Conference this Fall. The National Hydro Company has, upon the advice of eminent counsel, taken the position that, having complied with all the terms of the 1921 lease as extended and having signified its intention and capacity to proceed, the Government, under the special terms of the Lease, should not and could not summarily terminate the Company's enlarged concession. Since the first of May the status of the 1921 Lease may be considered to be one of suspended animation, with the suspension very largely at the mercy of the Government. In view of the company's representations, and probably more particularly owing to the position taken by the two provincial governments directly interested, on the general question of provincial proprietorship of water powers, the Federal Government has decided to shelve the Carillon controversy until the Fall, or at any rate until after the interprovincial conference is held at Ottawa in September. There will then be ample opportunity for a full and friendly discussion of all the constitutional issues involved.

"A series of difficult problems. The National Hydro may be considered to some extent perhaps to be a victim of circumstances, political, constitutional and economic, which have tended to keep the main question in the background and to delay a solution. During the past two years there have been two changes of government at Ottawa, two Federal General Elections, and elections in both the provinces concerned. At the last session of Parliament there was a protracted debate on the Georgian Bay Canal Bill, a subject that involved the whole question of water powers on the Ottawa River. Furthermore, the general question of the respective rights of the Federal Government and the Provinces in navigable, canalized rivers has been precipitated into practical discussions by the urgent necessity for working out some inter-governmental modus operandi which will permit an uninterrupted flow of power for Central Canada from the St. Lawrence, the Niagara and the Ottawa Rivers. Both from an economic and geographic standpoint the Carillon is one of the most obviously suitable powers for development to meet the needs of both Ontario and Quebec.

"Authority required from all three governments. The National Hydro, under the control of Shawinigan interests, has from the first taken the position that it will not proceed with power development at Carillon unless or until satisfactory authority can be secured from each of the three governments concerned. Specific commitments have already been secured from the Quebec Government, and a co-operative understanding has been reached with the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. These circumstances are considered powerful factors insofar as Shawinigan's prospects are concerned.

"It seems probable that the Carillon problem will prove the means of establishing a working arrangement in that always delicate situation where the respective rights as between province and province, and as between provinces and the Federal authorities, are at issue."

NOTE. See further particulars re Carillon Bay Canal Bill during the Session of 1926-27, pages 90-94, this Volume.

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