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» [] Water Was Brought 50 Miles =r oo. | : | an upstairs room. | Brooks' sto : ry is told in a copy-| The eastern irrigation district, a8 A When Crookston arrived, only two | righted article by Ken Liddell in| j " When Alberta Town Opened [= i Slit, | brim "08 4 On one of them was 24,00 head| Brooks is in the middle of the! Today, Lake Newell is skirted of livestock. . dry belt, There is only enough rain With summer cottages, provides ginnings and gaudy characters will| ago when water was transported | stretched across the southern ter-|poasted a population of nine. : and has helped m . recalled when this once-water-| over more than 100 miles of dusty | ritories Among the ranchers who began aliesatiol Sbere BOW dre TONS of ares one or Ale Be + ters i1 celebrating Alberta's gol-| Hat. | The town's founder was Ernest|ther of Lord Charles Beresford, by the Canadian P ing. a den jubilee this summer. The railway was the town's be- | Morden Crookson who in 1904 came | men as Delaval Beresford, a bro- pe i De olway.| Brooks mow has a 76-bed hos a year before Alberta became a|ward to the Rockies, a stockyard| building next to the stockyard. | Jack) Jackson, who always toted south of neighboring Bassano, the provi asan hery. nrovince in 1905. Now surrounded| and a box-car were left at the The building was a store and|a gun and wore a high Mexican! which calls oe "best in the west| A mh vag ? ihr: | helped the ows igh ave, at the rear--Mrs. Crookson served | THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, April 18, 1955 17 ing 140 miles south of the railroad. | gig TRANSFORMATION the farmers in 1937. --- BROOKS, Alta. (CP)--Quaint be will remember the days 50 years lously - large ranches which| Three years later, the town! every two years for a crop. The | both sport and commercial less southern Alberta town joins prairie rail line from Medicine PIONEEK DAYS | moving into the territory were such | was the result of irrigation started ar grounds for upland-bird The town of Brocks started only | ginning. As the steel pushed west-|from Bronte, Ont, to set up ajand his foreman, H G. (Happy| created by a dam on the Bow river pital, four hotels, three banks and by lush, irrigated farmland, Brooks) bleak prairie point for the fabu-'post office in front, a dining room hat decorated with silver dollars.by a dam site." BOERESSSEREREE Now! New Blowout € Puncture Protection at no extra cost! | FLOOD-CONSCIOUS MANITOBA AREAS Flood-conscious Winnipeg is | winter blanket of ice. The Red scene was a familiar one when : 2 . river spread over 530 square the river flooded the streets of worried that spring again might | poo. 06 Co thorn Manitoba in | the city that spring. 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