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    Photo showing the building site for storing vehicles and implements.

    Photo showing the size of the generator used in the production of hydroelectric power at the Ear Falls Generating Station, July 1930.

    A view of the Ear Falls power house Unit #4, from the dam, April 21, 1948.

    Black and white photo of the Lac Seul Dam erosion 100 ft. below dam as of October 9, 1941.

    Discharge of water, looking east October 8, 1941.

    Photo shows the beginnings of the generating station and the cofferdam used in construction.

    Black and white photo of workers pouring the concrete flooring of the upper transition August 20 1947, Ear Falls Ontario, Unit #4., To keep up with the load growth, it became necessary to plan for th

    Ear Falls generating station switchboard, March 20, 1933.

    The new permanent homes in the Hydro Colony housed radio operator Jack Schwass, and his wife, line foreman Art Westran and his wife Ena, station maintenance man Harold Evans and his wife, operator Ed

    In this photo unidentified workers are seen laying concrete floor on Annex #4.

    Photo of turbine used for generating power at the station. The gentleman in the photo is unidentified.

    Construction of the Hydro colony began in 1937 to house employees and their families. However, when the second unit of the power plant was installed, the construction camp was built on the west side

    Photo looking north. Dev #4 construction and connecting of transformer.

    Ear Falls Generating Station in foreground and the Lac Seul Dam to the right. In 1927, a prospector, Henry Howey, struck gold at Red Lake, Ontario. In the winter of 1927, the government passed a bill

    Unidentified workers in the photo of the excavation of Unit #4, Erection Bay, Ear Falls Generating Station, March 25, 1947.

    Photo of a diving pump used to extract water during construction of the hydro plant on August 10, 1940's.

    A photo of Ear Fall's P.D. Unit 4 draft tube. Once the water passes through the turbine (which is a type of water wheel), it exits the generating station through the draft tube where it rejoins the m

    Ear Falls, hydroelectric power plant, Generating Station, cofferdam

    Photo showing the east side of south case, looking north.

    View of Lac Seul dam, heading upstream on the English River.The Ear Falls Generating Station is located on the English River at the discharge of Lac Seul. The English River is a tributary of the Winn