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No fiction: Interview with Jordi Fortuny, director of\ ‘The great adventure of the Canadian\’

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A hundred years ago, the creation of the Barcelona Traction company, Light and Power, better known as the ‘Canadian\’ was the beginning of major changes in Catalonia. An American engineer, Fred Stark Pearson, founded the company in Toronto and built the first hydropower stations in the Pyrenees, the largest ever in Europe. In a few years, electricity reached major cities and factories
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Title: No fiction: Interview with Jordi Fortuny, director of\ ‘The great adventure of the Canadian\’
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A hundred years ago, the creation of the Barcelona Traction company, Light and Power, better known as the ‘Canadian\’ was the beginning of major changes in Catalonia.
An American engineer, Fred Stark Pearson, founded the company in Toronto and built the first hydropower stations in the Pyrenees, the largest ever in Europe.
In a few years, electricity reached major cities and factories.

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