Adam Beck brought the inestimable benefit of cheap electric light and power to the citizens of Ontario through a publicly owned utility, the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. He had to fight
. 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
him into confrontation by 1917 with Sir Adam Beck in his campaign for
private enterprise, and Gouin refused to follow Ontario’s lead in establishing public ownership of the hydroelectric industry [see Sir Adam
. M. Wilson (Toronto, 1977). W. R. Plewman, Adam Beck and the Ontario Hydro
, and Henry Mill Pellatt*, would make them key combatants against Adam
generating station began sending power to Toronto in 1906. The monopoly over Toronto’s electricity market had already led to agitation for public control, however, and that year, through the efforts of Adam
August Snider became the chair of the Ontario Power Commission, which represented seven municipalities and whose members included London mayor Adam
. R. Plewman, Adam Beck and the Ontario Hydro (Toronto
Adam Beck], his reluctance to abandon private enterprise
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