[Prince Albert] The La Colle Falls Story

Thin paper stock, corner stitched with staple (bound by a single staple at top left corner), unpaginated (report runs 9 printed pages).

Corners lightly bumped. Staple rusting. Pages edge-tanned.

In this short report, Shirley Mannweiller (of Prince Albert’s Department of Economic Development and Tourism Marketing) describes the inception and eventual abandonment of the La Colle Falls Dam east of Prince Albert on the North Saskatchewan River. Mannweiller outlines hydroelectric power’s role in Prince Albert’s optimistic development in the early 1910s, complications and cost revisions as dam construction began, and the damage to the city’s population and economy when construction halted in 1914. With reference to key events and figures, the report casts the La Colle Falls dam as a story of optimism, crisis, and resilience unique to Prince Albert. No publication date indicated, but a “The Present – 1989” section heading makes a publication date of 1989 or later likely.