Meech Lake Ruins

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This photograph is on page 73 in Historical Walks: the Gatineau Park story, Katharine Fletcher, Chesley House: Ottawa, 1988, 1997.

"Carbide" Willson’s acid condensation tower, dam, footbridge, and generating station, 13 July, 1917. The falls are the start of Meech Creek, below which there was quite a "village" community. Photo by Topley. NAC PA–144964.

Super-phosphate plant at Meech Lake in 1917 (73KB JPG image)