WATER POWERS 
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in reserve at the call of the commission, delivery being made at 110,000 
volts at Rémis rapids on the interprovincial boundary for transmission 
to various points in eastern Ontario. 
Lake St. John District.—In the Lake St. John district the Duke- 
Price Power Company has a development of 495,000 horse-power at Isle 
Maligne, on the Saguenay river, which constitutes the present largest 
single development in the province. Power from this station goes to 
pulp and paper mills in the district, to the newly established aluminium 
industry at Arvida and part is also purchased by the Shawinigan Water 
and Power Company and delivered over a long transmission line to Quebec 
city and district. Active construction is also proceeding on the Alcoa 
Power Company's development at Chute-4-Caron, Saguenay river, which 
is being undertaken in two stages. The initial development, now under 
construction will have an installation of 260,000 horse-power. The 
ultimate development under a higher head will have an installation of 
approximately 1,000,000 horse-power. 
Pulp and Paper Installation.—The power demands of the pulp 
and paper industry are large and as over 52 per cent of the ground wood 
pulp and over 44 per cent of the newsprint manufactured in Canada during 
1926 were produced in Quebec it is obvious that the power required was 
very considerable, in fact over 782,000 horse-power is utilized in this 
industry in Quebec, about 566,000 horse-power being purchased from central 
electric stations and the remainder directly installed for the industry. 
An interesting feature of the pulp and paper industry in the province 
is the amount of electricity used in the production of steam for heating 
or process cooking. Generally speaking it is uneconomic to use electricity 
for steam raising in competition with coal, but where the water supply is 
in excess of that required to meet the demand for electric power or where 
mills have contracted for more power than is actually necessary to drive 
their machinery the excess in either case, which otherwise would be wasted, 
can be advantageously used in raising steam. Naturally, when electric 
power as such, is fully required for motive power the raising of steam will 
revert again to fuel boilers. 
The Quebec Streams Commission.—Very valuable assistance has 
been given towards the economic utilization of the provincial water- 
powers by the Quebec Streams Commission, established by act of the 
legislature in 1910. The commission carries out basic investigations as 
to the water resources of the province in co-operation with the Dominion 
Water Power and Reclamation Service of the Department of the Interior 
and has also constructed engineering works of great magnitude and im- 
portance to store flood waters and regulate and augment stream flow, 
measures which have proved successful to a striking degree. 
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