"As though there was no boundary": the Shipshaw project and continental integration (American Review of Canadian Studies, 22 June 2004)

"As though there was no boundary": the Shipshaw project and continental integration. Publication:American Review of Canadian Studies / EXTRACT "Shipshaw was thoroughly embedded in its continental context. Alcan, the project's builder, initially... More

"As though there was no boundary": the Shipshaw project and continental integration. Publication:American Review of Canadian Studies / EXTRACT "Shipshaw was thoroughly embedded in its continental context. Alcan, the project's builder, initially expressed little interest in expanding its industrial facilities to include the gigantic power plant on the lower Saguenay River. The motive force came instead from the Canadian government, specifically from Canada's wartime Power Controller Herbert Symington, who was a close and trusted associate of the powerful Minister of Munitions and Supply, C.D. HOWE. Symington, in turn, was responding to U.S. demand for an expanded electrical power pool to serve defense preparations in the eastern United States, even before the U.S. formally entered the war. In this way, burgeoning U.S. demand for energy in 1940, and Canadians' willingness to do something about it, formed the original prod to Shipshaw's construction." Notes: This article is goo Less