[Water-Power in Canadian Provinces]

A series of water-power maps of Canada issued by the short-lived Commission of Conservation

This collection of four detailed maps of Canada was published in Ottawa by the Commission of Conservation in 1911. Each sheet provides an overview of the hydraulic capacity of a different Canadian region – Quebec, British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia/New Brunswick.

Water district boundaries are outlined in red and hundreds of individual features are numbered in conjunction with the corresponding report (not included). According to the Canadian Encyclopedia,

“The Commission of Conservation, was established in 1909 to provide Canadian governments with the most up-to-date scientific advice on the conservation of human and natural resources. The wastefulness of the common methods of resource exploitation was widely admitted, and the conservation movement was beginning to offer alternative approaches, particularly in the US where the first national commission was struck in 1908. Canada was urged to follow suit, as a step towards a continental conservation policy.”

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