Ten Mile Dam Site

Construction Date:  1901

• Damaged in the 1904 floods and repaired
• Raised & Improved in 1907
• Abandoned ca. 1930
• Washed away in 1948

Features:

• The dam provided power to Brandon, but the lake it created is part of Daly heritage
• The first hydroelectric generating station in Manitoba and the first large dam
• The spillway was built with a 6.7-m head, or waterfall, and was 18.3 m wide. After the flood discharge in the spring, timber stop logs were placed in the spillway, raising the water an additional 3 m to the top of the dam and providing a working head of 9 m. The 79-m-long timber dam was built with 13 rows of tamarack piling (between 4.8 m and 15 m in length) driven close together into the river’s clay bottom. The dam’s upper side was faced with tongue-and-groove lumber.