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   Construction of Ontario Hydro tunnels for the Sir Adam Beck - Niagara Generating Station #2 (image/jpeg)
Title Construction of Ontario Hydro tunnels for the Sir Adam Beck - Niagara Generating Station #2
Creator  Helie, Fred
Medium  Photograph
Extent  5" x 4" black & white photograph from album My Three and One Half Years Underground by Fred Helie
Description  Photographs were taken by Fred Helie, a worker on the project sometime between 1950 - 1958
Notes  Beautiful Dufferin Islands. Across this waterway which encircles these islands, we had to build a bridge to allow our trucks and equipment to get to the islands as we had 2 10" downpipes through which we drop concrete to the tunnel below. These downpipe were kept as much as possible to 400 ft apart
Provenance  Donated by Fred Helie
Date  1953.
Collection  Fred Helie Collection
Old Call Number  LHC FH Collection
Rights Holder  Niagara Falls Public Library
Rights  Fred Helie
Subject  Hydro Electric Power - Tunnels - Construction
  Power Plants - Sir Adam Beck 2
  Dufferin Islands
Place Name  Queenston (inhabited place)
  Niagara Falls (inhabited place)
Record ID  89827
Digital image 
Format image/jpeg
Size  728px X 568px
Resolution  150ppi X 150ppi
Digitization B&W Scan
Equipment Epson Perfection 1260
Date 2002-12-13
Physical items 
Filing No.   Format       
D10697  Photograph     

 

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