Addendum: for you readers not from central Canuckistan may be puzzled by the term Hydro as referring to electicity.

----- Warning: What follows is an explanation of "Hydro", including a history of the term via thepersonage of Sir Henry Pellatt.

Reader discretion is advised.

Early in the 20th C. a Canadian with serious British ties, Sir Henry Pellatt (a gent of grand engineering and entrepreneurial talents) where after several successful ventures settled in what was then the northern outskirt of Toronto, where he built a fabulous castle-like abode on the cliff-like rise that marks the ancient littoral of Lake Ontario (Casa Loma, now an amazing tourist attraction - ttp://www.digitalozone.com/casaloma/).

It was Henry who was behind the diversion of the Falls on the Niagara river, to produce hydro-electric power.

Hence, Hydro became synonymous with electricity, here.

(This is our Hearst Castle, so to speak.)

Hen was proliferate (at the time he could "afford" to be).

He built a massive (and I mean massive) many-storeyed brick stable, connected to the castle by an underground passageway. He also brought in his entire mounted regiment , and quartered them there. In Casa Loma itself, he had installed the first-ever system of indirect lighting, and perhaps the first non-commercial elevator to ease the ascent of his crippled wife to her bed-chambers. In the solarium the gardens' soil was heated by underground steam piping. There was an imported pipe-organ, showers with faucets for scented water. No two floors of th 98 rooms were finished in the same wood-pattern. etc.

e.varden