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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 Company’s 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 5
Toronto Electric Light Company Substation 660 Adelaide Street West Toronto, Niagara Toronto Niagara 1908 6

Toronto Electric Light Company Substation - Toronto Hydro 1908 660 Adelaide Street West Knox Presbyterian Church 1909 7
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 15.10
Toronto Electric Light Company Substation - Toronto Hydro. 1908. 660 ...11
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