LH2079 Oshawa Public Utilities - ID Photo (4)
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white identification photo of an unidentified Oshawa Electric Company (now Utilities Commission) employee.
- Notes
- In 1916 the Oshawa Electric Company was purchased by the Province of Ontario and merged into the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. It had previously been owned by the Seymour Power Company. The distribution system was bought back by the City of Oshawa in 1929, for the price of $310,000, due to a dramatic increase in demand. By 1930 the Public Utilities Commission had been created to deal with issues of the use of electricity in the community.
- Date of Original
- ca. 1920-1930
- Dimensions
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Width: 4 cm
Height: 5.5 cm
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Electric Company (Utilities Commission)
- Local identifier
- LH2079
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.90012 Longitude: -78.84957
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Terms of Use
- please credit Oshawa Public Libraries, Local History Collection
- Contact
- Oshawa Public LibrariesEmail:nadams@oshawalibrary.on.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
Nicole Adams, Local History and Genealogy Librarian
65 Bagot Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 1N2
905-579-6111 EXT 5253
