The Story of Hydro: White Thunder, written by Blodwen Davies in 1931, was imbued with the theme of industrial conquest. The pamphlet appeared in the Ryerson Canadian History Readers series which was intended to inspire school children with a sense of pride and excitement in Canadian history. In this line drawing the artist attempted to express the immense difference of perspective between the indians who had feared and worshipped Niagara Falls and modern European man who harnessed the Falls "like a beast of burden."
