Adam Beck
Sir Adam Beck was born in Baden, Ontario on June 20, 1857. He was elected three times to the office of mayor of London, Ontario, and simultaneously served as a member of the Provincial Legislature (which is no longer permitted).He was an early and prominent advocate of publicly owned electricity grids, and Sir James Whitney, in whose provincial government he served as minister without portfolio, appointed him first chairman of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. He was knighted by King George V in 1914 for his promotion of electricity and development of transmission lines. The Queenston Chippawa power station, which he helped to create, was renamed after him in 1950. A private school in London is also named after him.