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Toronto Electric Light Company was an early electricity supplier in Toronto founded and presided over by John Joseph Wright (1847–1922) and owned by Sir Henry Pellatt. Founded in 1882 TELC opened a steam driven power plant at Scott Street and Esplande. This plant was used to win a contracto to provide night time street lighting (50 lights) replacing the oil and kerosene lamps in the old city of Toronto on King Queen and Yonge Streets.
acumen: he founded the Toronto Electric Light Company in 1883, the
same year that Thomas Edison developed steam-generated electricity.1
In 1883 he founded the Toronto Electric Light Company and in 1902 he
and his partners built the first Canadian hydro-generating plant at
Niagara Falls.2
stack of the Toronto Electric Light Companys generating plant on
Wharf 31 at the foot of Scott Street.3
The Toronto Electric Light Company almost had a monopoly on supplying
electricity to cities.4
The Toronto Electric Light Company Limited -v- The Corporation of The
City of Toronto (Ontario) UKPC 86
23 Oct 1916
PC
Commonwealth
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Toronto Electric Light Company Substation
660 Adelaide Street West
Toronto, Niagara
Toronto
Niagara
1908
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Toronto Electric Light Company Substation - Toronto Hydro
1908
660 Adelaide Street West
Knox Presbyterian Church
1909
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Toronto Electric Light Company Substation - Toronto Hydro
1908
660 Adelaide Street West
Ontario Heritage Trust Building - known as the Birkbeck Building 8
Toronto Electric Light Company was an early electricity supplier in
Toronto, founded and presided over by John Joseph Wright (1847-1922)
and owned by Sir Henry Pellatt.9
Toronto Electric Light Company & The Toronto Power Station
14. Ontario Hydro & Sir Adam Beck
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Toronto Electric Light Company Substation - Toronto
Hydro. 1908. 660 ...11