"As though there was no boundary": the Shipshaw project and continental integration.(US influence in Shipshaw hydroelectric project in Quebec, 1941-43)

       Here, the foundation of Freedom you've laid; 
       Your weapons--the mattock, the axe and the spade, 
       The crusher, the mixer, the bucket, the drill, 
       A sledge or a hammer, swung with a will! 
 
      You--men of Shipshaw--ten thousand and more, 
      You're working, you're building, you're winning the war! 
      Ten thousand warriors, loyal and fine 
      Carrying on behind the battle line! 
      --From "Men of Shipshaw," by W. Gordon Ritchie, The Aluminum 
      Ingot, October 30, 1942 

The Shipshaw hydroelectric project on Quebec's Saguenay River has ...

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