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Business Type: Light, Heat, and Power

Fenelon Falls Electric Light Co. (Limited)

As early as 1885 approaches were made by various individuals and corporations to establish hydro-electric generating plants at the falls. The first to succeed was the Fenelon Falls Electric Light Company, created in 1893 to provide electricity for Fenelon Falls and Lindsay. According to Suggitt the personnel of the new company was kept a close […]

Lindsay Light, Heat & Power Company (Lindsay)

J. Alexander Culverhouse, an electrical and mechanical broker, and George White-Fraser, an electrical engineer, both from Toronto, were unknown in the village before March 1898. Having acquired control of the water power at the falls, they appeared before the Village Council at a specially called meeting on Saturday April 30th, 1898 to request the passage […]

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