Canada’s water-power is, as you know, among her chief assets, and the Dominion is one of the greatest water-power countries on earth. Although the United States has more hydraulic power available for development, yet in proportion to her population Canada actually uses three times as much as we do. She has in her rivers and streams a total of about eighteen million low-water available horse-power, of which about one sixth is now being used. Quebec and Ontario possess between them nearly two thirds of the total water-power resources, of which Ontario has the larger amount developed, and Quebec the more in reserve. These two provinces, like the eastern United States, contain also the greater part of Canada’s industries, seventy per cent. of which are now run by water-power. This cheap power is one of the principal reasons why Ontario and Quebec do most of Canada’s manufacturing and have so many American branch plants. Ontario’s biggest single water-power is in the waters of Niagara Falls. As you know, the Niagara River connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. It forms also a part of the boundary between the United States and Canada. For many years commercial power companies have operated on both sides of the Falls. By treaty, Canada and the United States have limited the commercial use of the Falls, and have fixed the amount of water that can be diverted from them at twenty thousand cubic feet a second on the American side, and thirty-six thousand feet on the Canadian side. This apportionment was made because the major part of the Falls is on Canada’s side of the boundary, and much power is imported by the United States from Canada. The engineers say that if the governments will let them they can divert much more of the water in such a way that the beauty of the Falls will not be impaired. The Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission has revolutionized the situation on the Canadian side. The Falls have been put to work directly for the people, private corporations and profits have been eliminated, and, through the building of a giant new power station, the mighty forces of the falling waters have been made more productive than ever before. The Commission is distributing Niagara power to points two hundred and fifty miles away, and in addition is operating more than twenty additional power producing stations. It has built up a super-power system that covers southern Ontario. It also supplies power at the head of the Great Lakes. Through it more than three hundred cities, towns, and smaller municipalities are supplying themselves with power “at cost.”