BECK, Sir ADAM

. R. Plewman, Adam Beck and the Ontario Hydro (Toronto

 August Snider became the chair of the Ontario Power Commission, which represented seven municipalities and whose members included London mayor Adam

. M. Wilson (Toronto, 1977). W. R. Plewman, Adam Beck and the Ontario Hydro

 Adam Beck], where he met resistance from private-power

him into confrontation by 1917 with Sir Adam Beck in his campaign for

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

. 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

[see Sir Adam

killed Sir Adam

 Adam Beck, that was paid for by private-power interests in

 Adam Beck], his reluctance to abandon private enterprise

, and Henry Mill Pellatt*, would make them key combatants against Adam

private enterprise, and Gouin refused to follow Ontario’s lead in establishing public ownership of the hydroelectric industry [see Sir Adam