Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-electricity during Canada’s Second World War

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Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower. Only the US generated more hydro power than Canada and only Norway generated more per capita. Allied Power is about how this came to be: the mobilization of Canadian hydro-electricity all the way through the war and the have an effect on of that wartime expansion on Canada’s power systems, rivers, and politics.

Matthew Evenden argues that the wartime power crisis facilitated an unprecedented expansion of state keep an eye on over hydro-electric development, boosting the rustic’s generating capacity and making the most important material contribution to the Allied war effort concurrently it exacerbated regional disparities, transformed rivers through dam construction, and changed public attitudes to electricity despite the fact that power conservation programs.

An essential contribution to the political, environmental, and economic history of wartime Canada, Allied Power is an innovative examination of somewhat-known aspect of Canada’s Second World War experience.

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