Excerpt from Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Commissioners for the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park: 1921

Chippawa Power Development was officially turned over with appropriate ceremonies in the presence of representatives of the Ontario Municipalities which are partners under the hydro-electric Power Commission of Ontario. This event celebrated the opening of the large hydro-electric Development commenced in 1917 after preliminary surveys and inquiries extending over a long period and the examination of suggestions for using the maximum head between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario dating back over twenty years. The plant will use over 300 feet of the 326 feet available fall and, therefore, represents a marked departure from the constructed power developments on the Canadian side of the Niagara River where the maximum effective head now is 180 feet. One cubic foot of water used through the new Hydro canal with the improved efficiency in machinery and appliances will produce 30 hp. Where the present developments produce but 12 to 16 hp. With an equal quantity depending upon the head of water used. The latest plant appears to mark a long advance in the manufacture of supersized turbines and generators and indicates that the to h.p. Units of the last twenty years will give place in special installations to units that may reach h.p. Each. At this period in Niagara power development it will doubtless prove interesting to narrate the early history of the Park Commissioner's endeavour to attract the attention of capitalists to the possibilities of Niagara Falls to produce a continuous supply of com mercial power. The negotiations are referred to in the Annual Reports for the years 1889, 1890, and 1891, but many of the details to be found in the correspondence of the time are omitted.

The position and attitude of the Park Commissioners is fairly set forth in the Sixth Report which may be quoted as follows.

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