Hydroelectric development in Quebec

Abstract

Quebec, with an area of almost 600,000 square miles, is the largest province in the Dominion of Canada. Second only to Ontario in population and industrial development, it has no known deposits of coal or oil. Quebec owes its rapid industrial growth to its great hydroelectric power systems developed by private enterprise, although the government has made an important contribution through the work of the Quebec Streams Commission in constructing storage reservoirs.