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Much has been published over the past century concerning the large, for their time, U.S. and Canadian 25-Hz hydroelectric stations in the vicinity of Niagara Falls. However, little has been published about the very first Canadian hydroelectric station at the falls and how it became involved in an early ac international connection between the United States and Canada.