books.google.ca - Hydro responded to demands from residents of farms and hamlets for a fair share of the "public power" that was being distributed to municipalities in southwestern Ontario in 1910. It extended its transmission lines along the back concessions of the region, developed new agrarian applications for electricity,...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Power_at_Cost.html?id=Taj_IgSAc-UC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePower at Cost