Word: kitimat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canada's lower-wage labor, devalued dollar and abundance of cheap electric power. Harnessing the remote Saguenay River, Aluminium cut into the trackless wilds of northern Quebec to build the dams that now power the smelter at Arvida (a contraction of Arthur Vining Davis). For the still bigger Kitimat power project in British Columbia, it carved a ten-mile tunnel into a mountain, created a waterfall 16 times as high as Niagara Falls and built a smelter with an awesome annual capacity of 300,000 tons...
...million aluminum project at Kitimat, B.C. (capacity: 1 billion Ibs. a year) was built by the U.S.-owned Aluminum Co. of Canada...