Ontario Power Generation

KIPLING GENERATING STATION

PLANT GROUP: Northeast Plant Group
DRAINAGE BASIN: Hudson/James Bay
RIVER: Mattagami
NEAREST POPULATION CENTRE: Kapuskasing (93 KM (58 Miles) South)
IN SERVICE DATE:
UNIT 1 - June 29, 1966
UNIT 2 - July 5, 1966
BUILT BY: Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario
Asset Transferred to Ontario Power Generation: April 1, 1999
NUMBER OF UNITS: 2
CONTROL: Remote from Porcupine TS

HISTORICAL NOTE:
The Kipling station was named for the local township where it stands. Although records in Ottawa and Queens Park give no origin, it is thought that an admirer of Rudyard Kipling was responsible for Kipling Township acquiring its name. Kipling at the request of a University of Toronto professor, wrote an engineers pledge which many of the men who built the station would have taken. He also wrote the poem "Sons of Martha" which is inscribed on a monument at Abitibi Canyon to the men who worked and died at the project.

The Mattagami River generating stations, Little Long, Harmon, Kipling and Highway 807 were officially opened by the Honourable John P. Robarts, Premier of Ontario and George E. Gathercole, Chairman of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario on July 21, 1966. The ceremony took place at the Harmon station.

MISCELLANEOUS:
The Kipling station was the fourth and last project in the Commission's current program for the development of the Abitibi and Mattagami Rivers, both tributaries of the Moose River flowing into James Bay.

Highway 807 - A major highway extension into the James Bay area was built by the Ontario Department of Highways and financed by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. The highway provides access to the hydroelectric power development and other rich natural resources of Ontario's northland.