From Niagara This Week:
Niagara Falls and its formidable capacity to generate electricity was at the centre of an international power struggle that could have had far-reaching effects, a local historian has discovered.
The Depression-era battle between Ontario Premier Mitch Hepburn and U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt over the world-famous cataract and hydro-electric power from the St. Lawrence Seaway has not received a lot of attention over the years, says Joseph Temple.
The full depth of the drama — Roosevelt was pushing Hepburn to agree to the seaway project while threatening to effectively pull the plug on power from the falls — has never been written about, says Temple.