The Shand Dam is the first on the Grand River.

Grand River waters were impounded in 1942 by the erection of the Shand Dam for flood control and hydroelectricity generation. Before the Shand Dam and the other major reservoirs on the Grand River opened, the river was sometimes a raging, uncontrolled torrent that menaced property owners along its banks.

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