hydro-electric railways, Reports (Toronto, 1921); also issued in Ont., Legislature, Sessional papers, 1922, no.24. W. R. Plewman, Adam Beck and the Ontario Hydro (Toronto
. Plewman, Adam Beck and the Ontario Hydro (Toronto, 1947).
of the Ontario Power Commission, which represented seven municipalities and whose members included London mayor Adam Beck
him into confrontation by 1917 with Sir Adam Beck in his campaign for
Adam Beck], where he met resistance from private-power interests in Hamilton. Perhaps his most interesting enterprise
Toronto’s electricity market had already led to agitation for public control, however, and that year, through the efforts of Adam
, during his third term, of bringing Ontario Hydro to Guelph [see Sir Adam Beck]. Though respected as a
. Ontario Gazette (Toronto), 1900: 738, 1017. W. R. Plewman, Adam Beck and the Ontario Hydro (Toronto, 1947). G. H. Stanford, To serve the community: the story of Toronto’s Board of Trade
engineers who advised the government of Ontario not to proceed with an electric railway between Port Credit and St Catharines, Ont. Their report, together with other factors, eventually killed Sir Adam
number hostile to public ownership – was Niagara in politics, an attack on Ontario Hydro and its chairman, Sir Adam
Mackenzie’s Toronto Railway Company and, in the debate over the public ownership of electricity in Ontario [see Sir Adam
Nicholls, and Henry Mill Pellatt*, would make them key combatants against Adam
Ontario’s lead in establishing public ownership of the hydroelectric industry [see Sir Adam Beck; Sir
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