The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station (named after Richard Lankaster Hearn) is a decommissioned electrical generating station in Toronto. The plant was originally fired by coal, but later converted to burn natural gas. It is still owned by Ontario Power Generation, a publicly owned electrical generation company.¹ The plant has been described as “Pharaonic in scale”,² and encompasses 650 thousand cubic metres of space²—large enough to fit 12 Parthenons inside.¹

The plant is located at 440 Unwin Avenue in Toronto’s Port Lands area, directly south of the foot of Carlaw Avenue, across the shipping channel and next to the recently opened Portlands Energy Centre. The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station, together with the nearby Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant sewage sludge incinerator stack and the Commissioners Street waste incinerator stack, stand as towering landmarks of a bygone industrial era in the Portlands area of Toronto (all three smokestacks are no longer in operation, and only one still stands).

I was able to go and take some shots down there but only the outside as the inside is extremely dangerous and more than one photographer has died getting that “special shot” so security is tighter now.

The above information was taken from Wikpedia as I thought that would be a more accurate description of this fascinating old building.

Canon Rebel XSi on raw, AV

27 mm
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f/6.3
200

June 3/12 around 7:30 p.m. loved the cloud cover.