Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity During Canada's Second World War

by Matthew Evenden

Book Overview

Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower. Only the United States 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 during the war and the impact of that wartime expansion on Canada's power systems, rivers, and politics.

Matthew Evenden argues that the wartime power crisis facilitated an unprecedented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442626259
• ISBN13: 9781442626256
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"