Located in Brighton Beach, the J. Clark Keith coal powered hydro plant was opened in 1953, and was demolished in 1997.
Below is a rendering that appeared in the Windsor Daily Star, February 19, 1949:
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Is that how it actually turned out? It's a handsome building.
Well..........06:11am passed. Still here. I'll enjoy the daylight, AND MY AWESOME NEW CALENDER!!!!!
Andrew
From a mild but very wet London, England, I wish you and all your followers a Very Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to All !!!
You will notice the mention to 60 cycle power, at the time Ontario was on 25 cycle, the conversion occurred during a program between 1951 and 1954 where technician's would have to visit every home and business to convert every single electric motor to 60 cycle.
The company that did this area was called Comstock, they also changed all appliances and light fixture. With 25 cycle you could see the philament in the light bulbs flicker. This also led to be able to buy electrical prodoucts in Detroit.
Thank you for the reminder of the switch to 60 cycle. I was a young child and remember asking what it was all about. To all responsible for this site and to all who read it, MERRY CHRISTMAS and a blessed 2013.
I can't really see the building because of all the ersatz scratches on the picture. Is the original really that bad?
Interesting that they report it as a Hydro Electric plant. Not so. It burned coal to make steam to make electricity. The foundations are still there next door to the existing natural gas fired station which replaced it in 2004.
My recollections of this building, observed in passing on many rambles down West Sandwich into the hinterlands of Ojibway and beyond, is that of a vaguely sinister industrial monolith, best experienced in the fading light of dusk. Of a piece with the smoke belching furnaces just across the river, although I never witnessed the slightest puff from her stacks.
She was a clean machine, her carbon emissions invisible but real. I don't know that her final figure was as elaborate as the drawings, I only saw her from the road, and then my mind was on other things. Don't remember all those windows. I think the stacks were shorter, or maybe the roof was taller? Anybody got any photographs?