Rankine Generating Station

For other hydroelectric generating plants at Niagara Falls, see List of Niagara Falls hydroelectric generating plants.

Rankine Generating Station
The station building in August 2025
Interactive map of Rankine Generating Station
LocationOntario, Canada
Nearest cityNiagara Falls
Built1905
Original useHydro generating station
Current useTourist museum on hydro power generation
ArchitectWilliam Grace Company / Hamilton Bridge Works Company
Governing bodyNiagara Parks Commission

The Rankine Generating Station is a former hydro-electric generating station along the Canadian side of the Niagara River in Niagara Falls, Ontario, slightly downstream from the older Toronto Power Generating Station. It was built in for the Canadian Niagara Power Company, and was simply known as the Canadian Niagara Power Company powerhouse. The company had been founded by William Birch Rankine, a New York City (and later of Niagara Falls) lawyer. The station opened in January 1905, with two generators; Rankine died three days after a third generator started operation at the station, in September 1905, and the station was renamed in his honour in 1927. Acquired by Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation in 1950 and in 2002, the station became a wholly owned subsidiary of FortisOntario (and part of Canadian owned Fortis Inc.). It was decommissioned in 2006.

It reopened in July 2021 as a museum.

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