A unique situation exists in Canada as regards 

 the available water-power and coal resources. 

 In Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Yukon 

 (including the North-West Territories), where 

 there is insufficient coal, Nature has provided 

 abundant water-powers, which are being rapidly 

 developed by private and public institutions. 

 British Columbia, Alberta, Nova Scotia, and to 

 some extent New Brunswick, have large coal 

 reserves, but the development of their water 

 powers has not been neglected, and at the present 

 time have a sufficient quantity of electrical 

 energy developed for all needs. Saskatchewan, 

 which has yet no large coal reserves or water 

 powers, is in close proximity to the enormous 

 coal deposits of Alberta, and the question of 

 electric power has as yet presented no difficulties. 



Development in Eastern Canada 



In Eastern Canada the most outstanding 

 hydro-development under construction in 1921 

 was undoubtedly that of the Ontario Hydro 

 Commission's Queenston-Chippawa project, 

 which will have an ultimate capacity of 600,000 

 h.p. when completed. While the project was 

 not completed two 60,000 h.p. units have been 

 installed. Other projects completed in Ontario 

 last year, were the Twin Falls plant of the 

 Abitibi Power and Paper Company, with a 

 capacity of 24,000 h.p.; 5,200 h.p. development 

 of the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Company 

 at Smoky Falls on the Sturgeon River, and the 

 4,500 h.p. development of the Canada Cottons 

 at Cornwall. Among the more important ex- 

 tensions to existing plants were the 7,200 h.p. at 

 the plant of the Great Lakes Power Co., at 

 Sault Ste. Marie and an addition of 250 h.p. to 

 the Lincoln Paper Mills at Merriton. 



Two new units of 10,800 h.p. each, bringing 

 their total installation up to 151,200 h.p. were 

 under construction last year at Cedars, Que., 

 for the Cedar Rapids Manufacturing Company. 

 At Shawinigan Falls, the Shawinigan Water and 

 Power Company were preparing to install a new 

 unit in their number two power station, of 42,000 

 h.p. The Dominion Textile Company com- 

 pleted the installation of 3,000 h.p. at Magog, 

 while Price Brothers, Ltd., finished their hydro- 

 electric development at Chute Aux Galets on the 

 Shipsaw River of 17,600 h.p. 



Progress in the Maritimes 



In the Maritime provinces development was 

 brisk. A plant of 13,500 h.p. was under con- 

 struction at Grand Falls by the Bathurst Lumber 

 Company, 9,000 h.p. of which was completed 

 during the year. The first provincial develop- 

 ment, that at St. Margaret's Bay, near Halifax, 

 with an ultimate capacity of 15,000 h.p. is now 

 ready to deliver some 6,600 h.p. Investigations 

 were also made for a development with an 

 ultimate capacity of 30,000 h.p. at Sheet Harbor, 

 to supply New Glasgow, Stellarton, Trenton, etc. 



Development was not particularly active in 

 Western Canada. In British Columbia, the 

 British Columbia Electric Railway Company 

 commenced the installation of a fourth unit of 

 13,200 h.p. at the Stave Falls plant. The City 

 of Winnipeg municipal plant at Point du Bois on 

 the Winnipeg River was increased during 1921 

 by two units totalling 13,800 h.p., and another 

 unit of 6,900 h.p. is being installed. The 

 Manitoba Hydro Commission extended its 

 transmission system and additional lines were 

 built to Morden, Carmen, Roland, Jordan, etc. 



The foregoing is a brief synopsis of the more 

 outstanding hydro-electric undertakings com- 

 pleted or under construction last year. 



Additional water-power for the Porcupine 

 mining area, various pulp and paper industrial 

 enterprises and the possible electricfication of the 

 Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, 

 etc., all point to 1922 as a period of continued 

 development in hydro-electric. 



Farming Wild Game 



A "discovery" has been made near Leduc, 

 south of Edmonton in Alberta which adds still 

 another phase to the myriad features of Canadian 

 agriculture and in its present lack of competition 

 suggests the way to the development of an expan- 

 sive and profitable industry. This is no less 

 than a successfully operated wild game farm, 

 abounding in the feathered denizens of all parts 

 of the world as well as those native to every 

 section of the Dominion. The farmer is D. H. 

 Bendick and he has built up an enterprise that 

 is possibly unique in the Canadian West as well 

 as having developed a most prosperous business 

 on novel lines which is returning him a handsome 

 revenue. Conditions for the breeding of wild 

 game he states to be ideal in Alberta and he 

 believes that from a commercial viewpoint the 

 future of the pursuit in the West is almost 

 limitless. 



The farm very generally remains in the primi- 

 tive state in which Nature created it, situated in 

 Central Alberta's picturesque parkland with its 

 open spaces and generous bluffs. A large en- 

 closure with artificial lakes has been provided for 

 the summer quarters of the waterfowl. No 

 alteration or addition was required for other 

 feathered inhabitants and with this exception the 

 primal wildness is unchanged. Between fifty 

 and sixty different breeds of the feathered 

 tribes are bred on the farm including wild ducks, 

 geese, turkeys, pheasants, grouse, prairie chick- 

 ens, quail, pea fowl, guinea hens, and doves. The 

 breeding stock on the farm at the present time 

 numbers nearly three hundred and this spring 

 and summer it is expected that two thousand 

 birds will be hatched and reared. 



An Accident Responsible for Venture 



The inception of this novel and profitable 

 industry was largely accidental. Mr. Bendick 



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