Matthew Evenden: 2 books
Allied Power
Mobilizing Hydro-electricity during Canada's Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower. Only the United States generated more hydro power than Canada and only Norway generated more per capita. Allied Power is about how this came to be: the mobilization of Canadian hydro-electricity during the war and the impact...
The River Returns
An Environmental History of the Bow
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product:...