The Great Falls Development 



It has been said that capital follows power 

 and that people follow capital, and it is usually 

 the history of a community where hydro-electric 

 power has been introduced and consistently and 

 properly marketed that industry has been 

 stimulated and the development of the com- 

 munity generally furthered. The fact that 

 certain areas of Canada are not provided with 

 cheap coal supplies has been largely compensated 

 for by the availability of potential water-power 

 development. Power, for instance, had a great 

 deal to do with making the city of Montreal the 

 first industrial centre of Canada, and the same 

 factor has resulted in the industrial prosperity 

 of the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The same 

 development can be effected, and is being effect- 

 ed, in other Canadian areas where good trans- 

 portation is available, labor abundant an d 

 reliable, electrical energy provided. 



At one time it was generally assumed that 

 Winnipeg could never become a great industrial 

 or manufacturing centre by reason of the absence 

 of coal deposits within distance of economic 

 transport from the city. The power possibilities 

 of the waterways about it were disregarded. 

 To-day the city of Winnipeg, after being the 

 great trade distributing centre of the Prairie 

 Provinces, is developing as its manufacturing 

 centre. At the end of 1919 Winnipeg returned 

 a record of 876 industrial establishments, capital- 

 ized at $80,378,258, employing 23,175 persons, 

 and accounting for an annual production of 

 $119,836,108. 



The Winnipeg River provides the city of 

 Winnipeg with two hydro-electric developments 

 of the major class, the 35,000 horse- power plant 

 of the Winnipeg Electric Company on the 

 Pinawa channel, 58 ' miles distant, and the 

 municipal plant at Pointe du Bois, with turbine 

 horse-power installed at the present time to the 

 extent of 47,000, and designed for an ultimate 

 capacity of 100,000 horse-power. When these 

 plants weie installed it was seriously questioned 

 whether the output could be absorbed by Greater 

 Winnipeg. Yet within twenty years, despite the 

 doubling of the capacity of the power supply, 

 the expansion of the city and its suburbs, the 

 great development of industry, and the antici- 

 pated industrial needs of the immediate future 

 have necessitated making provision for an 

 extension to the power available. 



Extensive H.P. Development 



This demand is being met by the Manitoba 

 Power Company, which, at Great Falls on the 

 Winnipeg River, is developing a project which, 

 for dimensions and potential impoitance, is 

 unequalled in the Dominion west of Niagara. 

 One thousand men are working on the prelimi- 



nary work preparatory to the installation of the 

 units of a 168,000 horse-power plant. Several 

 falls have been included in one concentration. 

 A dam with a maximum height of 70 feet and 

 4,000 feet in length is being constructed which 

 will raise the present level of the water 46 feet. 

 The pond or reservoir so created is of an area 

 of approximately 2,000 acres. The completed 

 power house will contain six vertical turbo- 

 generators. The initial installation is to contain 

 a power house building to accommodate three 

 units, and two generators are to be included of 

 21,000 k.w. capacity. For the first installation 

 the amount contemplated to be spent at Great 

 Falls is in the neighborhood of seven and a half 

 million dollars, and ultimately ten and a half 

 million dollars will be put into the work before 

 the site is developed to its capacity. 



The development of a power project of such 

 magnitude has been undertaken upon the firm 

 belief of prominent, hard-headed business men 

 in the yet greater potentialities of Greater 

 Winnipeg from the industrial standpoint. To 

 utilize the power the completed project will 

 provide, to the full extent, will require the 

 introduction of seventy-five millions of dollars 

 of capital to finance new industries, or practically 

 doubling the present sum invested in Winnipeg's 

 industrial enterprises. The fact that the neces- 

 sary finances to complete the project have been 

 forthcoming and the work is being proceeded 

 steadily with, is indicative of a general faith 

 in Winnipeg's industrial future. 



Game on the Prairies 



The fact that this year the ruffed grouse or prairie 

 chicken is plentiful in the West, and the prairie sloughs 

 are filled with wild duck, means not a little to the Prairie 

 Provinces. The further report that many big game 

 animals are on the increase and will furnish better hunting 

 this year is further encouraging, for in their game birds and 

 animals the Prairie Provinces possess a most valuable 

 resource which, under intelligent care and expert provision 

 against depletion, is maintained in this state from year to 

 year. The announcement that this is a good game year 

 for the prairies is pleasing to the farmer of that region, 

 but the knowledge is hailed with greater pleasure by the 

 many sportsmen outside for whom some spot on the 

 prairies' expanse is Mecca each fall. 



The Prairie Provinces are the natural home of the 

 prairie chicken, the partridge, wild geese ana ducks, rails, 

 coots, black-breasted and golden plover, Wilson and 

 Jacksnipe as wall as moose, cariboo and deer. Despite the 

 dense agricultural settlement of the southern areas of the 

 provinces, the various game birds thrive among the many 

 farms and do not appreciably dwindle in numbers, due to 

 the shortness of the open seasons, the rigorous enforcement 

 of the law, and the fact that the farmers, realizing their 

 value, afford them what protection they can. 



Wise Protective Legislation 



Wise legislation has been enacted in the establishment 

 of provincial game preserves, large areas of land set aside 

 for the purpose of propagating and perpetuating beneficial 

 birds and animals. Each preserve is in charge of a game 

 guardian whose duty it is to see that the laws are enforced, 

 forbidding, out of season, the bunting, shooting, trapping 



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