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W. A. C. Bennett Dam

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The W. A. C. Bennett Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada. [1]

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  1. 58 relations: Axel Wenner-Gren, BC Hydro, Biodiversity, British Columbia, British Columbia Social Credit Party, Churchill Falls Generating Station, Cofferdam, Columbia River, Columbia River Treaty, Dam, Daniel Sims, Documentary Organization of Canada, Embankment dam, Environmental issues, Finlay River, Fur trade, Gordon Shrum, High modernism, Hudson's Hope, Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, Hydroelectricity, Kaiser Aluminum, Kaska Dena, Keenleyside Dam, Kilowatt-hour, Kwadacha, Lake Athabasca, List of conventional hydroelectric power stations, List of generating stations in British Columbia, List of largest power stations in Canada, Local extinction, Lockout (industry), Lump sum, Mackenzie, British Columbia, Manicouagan Reservoir, Mica Dam, Natural resource, North America, Parsnip River, Peace Canyon Dam, Peace River, Peace River Country, Power station, Premier of British Columbia, Ray Gillis Williston, Reindeer, Robert-Bourassa generating station, Rocky Mountain Trench, Site C dam, Smallwood Reservoir, ... Expand index (8 more) »

  2. 1968 establishments in British Columbia
  3. BC Hydro
  4. Dams on the Peace River
  5. Hydroelectric power stations in British Columbia
  6. Museums in British Columbia
  7. Places named after Canadian politicians
  8. Publicly owned dams in Canada

Axel Wenner-Gren

Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren (5 June 1881 – 24 November 1961) was a Swedish entrepreneur and one of the wealthiest men in the world during the 1930s.

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BC Hydro

The British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority, operating as BC Hydro, is a Canadian electric utility in the province of British Columbia.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British Columbia Social Credit Party

The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing provincial political party of British Columbia, Canada, for all but three years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election.

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Churchill Falls Generating Station

The Churchill Falls Generating Station is a hydroelectric underground power station in Labrador. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Churchill Falls Generating Station are underground power stations.

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Cofferdam

A cofferdam is an enclosure built within a body of water to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out or drained.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Columbia River Treaty

The Columbia River Treaty is a 1961 agreement between Canada and the United States on the development and operation of dams in the upper Columbia River basin for power and flood control benefits in both countries.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Daniel Sims

Daniel Chester Forest Sims is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of northern British Columbia.

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Documentary Organization of Canada

The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) is a non-profit organization representing the interests of independent documentary filmmakers in Canada.

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Embankment dam

An embankment dam is a large artificial dam. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and embankment dam are embankment dams.

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Environmental issues

Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems.

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Finlay River

The Finlay River is a 402 km long river in north-central British Columbia flowing north and thence south from Thutade Lake in the Omineca Mountains to Williston Lake, the impounded waters of the Peace River formed by the completion of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in 1968.

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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Gordon Shrum

Gordon Merritt Shrum (January 14, 1896 – June 20, 1985) was a Canadian scientist, teacher, administrator, and the first Chancellor of Simon Fraser University.

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High modernism

High modernism (also known as high modernity) is a form of modernity, characterized by an unfaltering confidence in science and technology as means to reorder the social and natural world.

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Hudson's Hope

Hudson's Hope is a district municipality in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, in the Peace River Regional District.

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Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside

Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, CC (7 July 1898 – September 27, 1992) was a Canadian university professor, diplomat, and civil servant.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Kaiser Aluminum

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation is an American aluminum producer.

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Kaska Dena

The Kaska or Kaska Dena are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living mainly in northern British Columbia and the southeastern Yukon in Canada.

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Keenleyside Dam

Hugh Keenleyside Dam (formerly known as the High Arrow Dam) is a flood control dam spanning the Columbia River, 12 km (6.5 miles) upstream of the city of Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Keenleyside Dam are 1968 establishments in British Columbia, bC Hydro, dams completed in 1968, embankment dams and Publicly owned dams in Canada.

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Kilowatt-hour

A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour.

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Kwadacha

Kwadacha, also known as Fort Ware or simply Ware, is an aboriginal community in northern British Columbia, Canada, located in the Rocky Mountain Trench at the confluence of the Finlay, Kwadacha and Fox Rivers, in the Rocky Mountain Trench upstream from the end of the Finlay Reach (north arm) of Williston Lake.

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Lake Athabasca

Lake Athabasca (French: lac Athabasca; from Woods Cree: ᐊᖬᐸᐢᑳᐤ aðapaskāw, " there are plants one after another") is in the north-west corner of Saskatchewan and the north-east corner of Alberta between 58° and 60° N in Canada.

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List of conventional hydroelectric power stations

This article lists hydroelectric power stations that generate power using the conventional dammed method.

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List of generating stations in British Columbia

This is a list of electrical generating stations in British Columbia, Canada. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and list of generating stations in British Columbia are hydroelectric power stations in British Columbia.

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List of largest power stations in Canada

This article lists the largest electrical generating stations in Canada in terms of current installed electrical capacity.

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Local extinction

Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Lockout (industry)

A lockout is a work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute.

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Lump sum

A lump sum is a single payment of money, as opposed to a series of payments made over time (such as an annuity).

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Mackenzie, British Columbia

Mackenzie is a district municipality within the Fraser-Fort George Regional District in central British Columbia, Canada.

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Manicouagan Reservoir

Manicouagan Reservoir (also Lake Manicouagan) is an annular lake in central Quebec, Canada, covering an area of.

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Mica Dam

Mica Dam is a hydroelectric embankment dam spanning the Columbia River 135 kilometres north of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Mica Dam are bC Hydro, embankment dams, hydroelectric power stations in British Columbia, Publicly owned dams in Canada and underground power stations.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Parsnip River

The Parsnip River is a long river in central British Columbia, Canada.

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Peace Canyon Dam

The Peace Canyon Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Peace River in northern British Columbia, Canada. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Peace Canyon Dam are bC Hydro, dams on the Peace River, hydroelectric power stations in British Columbia, Museums in British Columbia and Publicly owned dams in Canada.

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Peace River

The Peace River (rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia and flows to the northeast through northern Alberta. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Peace River are Peace River Country.

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Peace River Country

The Peace River Country (or Peace Country; Région de la Rivière-de-la-paix) is an aspen parkland region centring on the Peace River in Canada.

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Power station

A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.

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Premier of British Columbia

The premier of British Columbia is the first minister and head of government for the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Ray Gillis Williston

Ray Gillis Williston (January 17, 1914 – December 7, 2006) was an educator and political figure in British Columbia.

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Reindeer

The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.

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Robert-Bourassa generating station

The Robert-Bourassa generating station, formerly known as La Grande-2 (LG-2), is a hydroelectric power station on the La Grande River that is part of Hydro-Québec's James Bay Project in Canada. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Robert-Bourassa generating station are Publicly owned dams in Canada.

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Rocky Mountain Trench

The Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as the Valley of a Thousand Peaks or simply the Trench, is a large valley on the western side of the northern part of North America's Rocky Mountains.

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Site C dam

The Site C Dam is a hydroelectric dam currently under construction on the Peace River, 14 kilometers southwest of Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Site C dam are bC Hydro, dams on the Peace River, hydroelectric power stations in British Columbia, Peace River Country and Publicly owned dams in Canada.

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Smallwood Reservoir

The Smallwood Reservoir is the reservoir created for the Churchill Falls Generating Station in the western part of Labrador, Canada.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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The Scattering of Man

The Scattering of Man (DƏNE YI’INJETL) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Luke Gleeson and released in 2021.

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Tsay Keh Dene First Nation

The Tsay Keh Dene First Nation is one of the Sekani bands of the Northern Interior of British Columbia.

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University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and Okanagan, in British Columbia, Canada.

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Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun, also known as the Sun, is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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W. A. C. Bennett

William Andrew Cecil Bennett (September 6, 1900 – February 23, 1979) was a Canadian politician who served as the 25th premier of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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Williston Lake

Williston Lake is a reservoir created by the W. A. C. Bennett Dam which is located in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. W. A. C. Bennett Dam and Williston Lake are Peace River Country.

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See also

1968 establishments in British Columbia

BC Hydro

Dams on the Peace River

Hydroelectric power stations in British Columbia

Museums in British Columbia

Places named after Canadian politicians

Publicly owned dams in Canada

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._A._C._Bennett_Dam

Also known as Bennett Dam, Gordon M. Shrum Generating Station, W A C Bennett Dam, W.A.C. Bennett Dam, WAC Bennett Dam.

, Strike action, The Scattering of Man, Tsay Keh Dene First Nation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Sun, W. A. C. Bennett, Watt, Williston Lake.