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George May









“The feeling that I try to maintain on it is the fact that there was a lot of electricity generated in that power house, there.

If you total up what entered into New York and what came into Canada, there were a lot of people benefited from all that electricity. That’s the plus side.

The down side, of course, is the disappearance of those municipalities that were around there for a long, long time. And then they were suddenly, they suddenly disappeared.”




George May was the Bell Telephone project engineer who established the telephone infrastructure in ‘Town One’ which became Ingleside, Ontario


in his own words: George May’s Voice (5 audio & video clips)

George May Interview Audio Excerpts, Colonel By Retirement Residence, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. August 30, 2013




It looks like roads go under the water. It’s the other way around, the water came up over the roadway.

Town One and Town Two. Town One became Ingleside. It was named Town One because it was the closest to Toronto where the Ontario Hydro Headquarters were.

Like a lot of other things in life there is a downside and an upside. Sometimes its a little difficult to determine one from the other.

Upside of the project. Versus the downside

Video



Video Excerpt: George May Interview, Colonel By Retirement Residence, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. August 30, 2013



In this video clip George May sets out what he sees as the pros and cons of St Lawrence Seaway project. Ingleside was a brand-new clean-sheet ultra-modern place established to house the people from the communities of Aultsville, Farran's Point, Wales and Dickinson's Landing, all destroyed by the construction of the Seaway.

Bio

George May was a recently graduated engineer from Queens University whose very first job out of university was as a project engineer with Bell Telephone on the Seaway Project. He helped build and maintain the on-site industrial communications systems as the Seaway was being built. He also designed and built the telephone infrastructure in ‘Town One’ (so called because it was the closest to Ontario Hydro’s Toronto headquarters) which became Ingleside, Ontario. George May spent his entire career with Bell.