The La Gabelle generating station is a hydroelectric dam built on the Saint-Maurice River, in Quebec, in Canada.

The dam is concrete-gravity type and has a holding capacity of 900 000 cubic meters of water.

Integrating a hydroelectric plant, the dam is located on the lower falls (18 metres (59 ft) in height) harvested[clarification needed] on the Saint-Maurice River.

According to Napoleon Caron, "La Gabelle" was once a site for well attended deals: Indians descended from the North with their furs.

There was a great trade, the Government had to collect taxes there, hence the name Gabelle... "[1] Given its distinctive architecture, the hydroelectric plant was chosen to illustrate a Canadian postage stamp in 1946.