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It was built in for the Canadian Niagara Power Company and named for company's founder William Birch Rankine (b. 1858), a New York City (and later of Niagara Falls) lawyer originally from Geneva, New York who died three days after (in Grafton, New Hampshire) the station opened in 1905 and renamed in 1927. [1]
Canadian Niagara Power Inc. is an electricity transmission and distribution utility servicing Fort Erie and Port Colborne, Ontario. Founded in 1892 as the Canadian Niagara Power Company , it operated the Rankine Generating Station from 1905 to 2006.
It was re-organized in 1899, becoming the Niagara Falls Power Company. Edward Dean Adams Power Plant of Niagara Falls, N.Y., belonging to the Niagara Falls Power Company. It was the first large-scale generating plant in the world, built in 1895. Its earliest facility was called Niagara Power Station No. 1.
The Chippawa-Queenston Power Canal in 1921; it was the first of three sources to provide water to the Generating Stations. Adam Beck II contains 16 generators and first produced power in 1954. The water was first diverted from the Niagara River by two five-mile (8 km) tunnels under the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, that start above the falls. [4]
This is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, [1] often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open tournament. The winner of the Canadian Closed advances to the World Cup stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle. Winners on tiebreak or a playoff match are ...
Mar. 31—NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. — The Niagara Parks Power Station will officially open its doors to the public as Niagara's newest landmark attraction on July 1. Construction at the historic ...
Hansen won the Canadian Open Chess Championship in Victoria, British Columbia, in July 2012. [14] The next month, he tied for fifth place in the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens, Greece, scoring 9/13 points, [15] the best-ever finish by a Canadian in this event; the previous best had been Vinny Puri's tie for 8th place in 1988.
John Stuart Morrison (1889-1975) was a chess master who won the Canadian Championship five times between 1910 and 1926. He represented Canada at the 1939 Buenos Aires Olympiad and played in several international tournaments that were won by José Raúl Capablanca.