Business View Civil & Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 11

51 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 11 P.O. Box 179, 12B Mill Street, Almonte, Ontario K0A 1A0 | 613-256-2403 Mississippi River Power Corp. owns and operates the 4.6 Megawatt run of river Brian J. Gallagher Generating Station in Almonte, Ontario. This station, which has been in operation since 2010, operates on 16 metres of head and generates over 22,000 Megawatts of clean, renewable power annually. The Corporation of the Municipality of Mississippi Mills owns 100% of the shares in MRPC. www.mississippiriverpower.com Producing renewable electricity safely, reliably and profitably MI SS I SS I PP I MI LLS , ONTAR IO statue stands tall in Almonte’s core. “There is a bit of a squabble in the States about which school he actually invented basketball at, but no one can squabble about where he was born,” Lowry says. “He is absolutely from Almonte. Everybody wears that proudly on their sleeve that he’s from here. There’s a lot of respect for our heritage and a lot of pride in the history of our communities.” That respect has extended outside of Mississippi Mills, with town community groups receiving two National Trust for Canada Awards for their work in preserving the heritage of local buildings. The buildings honored include the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, as well as five recently restored buildings in Almonte’s downtown. “These people are artisans and they are doers and there is national recognition by accredited associations about what’s going on here in terms of heritage preservation,” Kelly says. “It would be great for a community our size to win one of those, and