Amassing Power: J.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927

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Author/collaborator
Title
Amassing Power: J.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927
Abstract
James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925), an American tobacco magnate, negotiated the sale of a huge block of power to the Aluminum Company of America’s Canadian subsidiary, Alcan, after persuading the Quebec government to raise the level of Lac Saint-Jean by over seventeen feet to accommodate his hydro electric development on the Saguenay River. The author provides portraits of J.B. Duke and Quebec politicians of the period and gives an account of the protracted battle of wits between Duke's chief engineer, William States Lee, and Quebec's chief of Hydraulic Service, Arthur Amos.
Place
Montreal and Kingston
Publisher
McGill-Queen’s University Press, in collaboration with The Forest History Society
Date
2000
# of Pages
ix-19-301p.
Language
en
ISBN
0-7735-2033-3
Citation
Massell, David Perera. Amassing Power: J.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, in collaboration with The Forest History Society, 2000.
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