Ferranti-Packard

The richly photographic social history of the pioneering of electricity generation and how it instantly transformed a sleeping agricultural colony called Upper Canada and the little town of Toronto into an economic giant. From genesis in power transmission to the pinnacle of a too brief Canadian industrial renaissance in Ontario,this book does it all. The quantum leap from depression era pessimism to postwar ebullience ,the stunning post industrial decline in the light of global cold war politics is laid out and carefully referenced. The exhaustively documented tale suffers from being academic and a tad rich in technologic detail,so the book is not going up for a GG award, It nonetheless is magical in narrative scope and deserves a read.