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The Montreal Water Works: Its History Compiled from the Year 1800 to 1912
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The Montreal Water Works: Its History Compiled from the Year 1800 to 1912
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A history of Montreal's waterworks, beginning with the system installed by Joseph Frobisher and the "Company of Proprietors of the Montreal Waterworks" in 1800 to the system in service in 1912. The first waterworks was a system using wooden pipes that transferred water from a creek in Cote Des Neiges, around the west side of Mount Royal and into two reservoirs situated in Montreal. This was soon deemed inadequate. A later system brought in water straight from the city's harbour, but was soon abandoned when it was realized that waste from the outlet of the William Collector sewer was making the water taste foul. In 1852, the city's Chief Engineer, Thomas C. Keefer, developed a system involving the aqueduct canal to convey what was found to be the most reliable and "pure" source of water from the St. Lawrence River.
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Montreal
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[s.n.]
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1913
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en
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Smith, F. Clifford. The Montreal Water Works: Its History Compiled from the Year 1800 to 1912. Montreal: [s.n.], 1913.
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