Résultats

      Transformer yard, Ear Falls, Ontario, March 24, 1975.

      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 main stream of the river.

      Ear Falls, hydroelectric power plant, Generating Station, cofferdam

      Unidentified men assembling the 'exciter' at the generating plant. The exciter is used to regulate voltage of the power from the generating station.

      Photo showing bank above Erection Bay, Ear Falls Generating Station, Unit #4.

      Ear Falls, February 7, 1947. Storehouses and shops.

      Aerial view of Lac Seul Hydro Dam looking south, 1940's, Ear Falls Ontario. Work on this project began in the summer of 1928 and was completed in the spring of 1929.

      The rapid development of mines in the vicinity of Red Lake made it necessary to install another unit on the English River system. It was also necessary to redesign the electrical control and protection systems, and the high and low voltage switching arrangements. Provision was made in the redesign, for …

      Operating headgates, August 27, 1935.

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

      Line to water rheostat F. P. I. November 2, 1930. A rheostat is a continously variable resistor used to regulate the current.

      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 Winnipeg River and is part of the Lake Winnipeg drainage basin. The primary storage reservoir …

      Photo of the historic Gold Camp Plaque erected in Geraldton on the southwest corner of Main Street and Fourth Avenue South by the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario.

      View looking east down Mine Road to No.2 headframe and mill. Inscription reads 'Hard Rock Gold Mine Ltd'. At the extreme left of photo is the office and residence.

      View looking west up Mine Rd. at No.2 headframe and mill. Inscription reads 'Hard Rock Gold Mine'. In 1936, the company began sinking No.2 shaft on the porphyry outcrop, and erected a mill in 1937. Hard Rock Mine became the gold camp's 3rd producer in 1938.

      Photo showing an underground drilling operation of a gold mine.

      A winter view of Bankfield Mine looking west. Note the water line running to the water tower serving both Bankfield and Tombill Mines. The Bankfield Gold Mines began shaft-sinking in 1934, and three years later poured its first gold bricks.

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      View looking southeast from the old Bankfield Highway at Magnet Mine. Today, Highway 11 is beyond the buildings shown here. Inscription reads 'Magnet Consolidated Gold Mine.' Magnet Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd.(1936), began sinking a shaft that year,and in 1938, became the gold camp's 5th producer.