1909-25 300mw Stave Falls Powerhouse Visitor Center east of Vancouver, BC

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Langley Heritage Society posted three photos with the comment: "BC Hydro’s Stave Falls Powerhouse, opened in 1912. Mission, British Columbia, Canada (A National Historic Site that is also a Visitor Centre) Mark Forsythe photos from 2019"

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Michael Cleven commented on the above post
my own photo from 1996; penstock No. 7 was built last and had to go over the top of the first six.

Comments on the above post

This is from a 360-degree photo.

Clare Seeley, Jun 2018

This is also from a 360-degree photo.

K, May 2016

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VancouversBestPlaces
"Stave Falls Powerhouse took 16 years to build between 1909 and 1925."

"The property’s large watershed and 30-metre drop can produce 300 megawatts of the Lower Mainland’s power....Completed in 1912 and expanded in the 1920s, the Stave Falls Hydro-Electric Installation is a well-preserved example of a typical hydro-electric plant of the early 20th century." [pc.gc.ca]

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" By 1913, Stave Falls was supplying power to 1,157 customers in the Lower Mainland and by 1926 it was the largest source of power in the B.C. Electric system. In 1927, Alouette Lake was diverted by a tunnel to Stave Lake, and Stave Falls Power House became the first automated powerhouse in the entire Commonwealth." It was converted to a museum ("public educational centre") in 2001.