Waterpower is Ontario’s most reliable renewable energy source and has been the backbone of the province’s electricity supply for over a century.

On October 5, 1894 the Bracebridge Village Council purchased a water power generating plant to supply electricity to the community and in so doing made Bracebridge the pioneer in municipal hydro-electric generation in Canada. The generator was 84 kilowatts and housed in the building which still stands at Bird’s Mill.