Ontario's Niagara Falls, 1887-1929: Reversing the Privatization of Hydro
Journal of Canadian Studies2005Vol. 39(3), pp. 60–84
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Abstract
From 1887 to 1929, the binational Niagara Falls supported tourism and power generation in Ontario. Something went wrong with the private hydro development on the Canadian side of the falls, however. This article shows that when private hydro utilities (who had been allocated public water rights to the falls) created conditions of regional industrial backwardness in Ontario because they found exports to US industry more profitable, the state, pressured by municipal movements, intervened to reverse privatization of hydro-electric development and to strengthen export regulation. This archival study demonstrates that asymmetrical political and trade relations between Canada and the US can be overcome.
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