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Brooks

Preparing land for irrigation near Brooks, 1920. (PAA P.765)

Preparing land for irrigation near Brooks, 1920. (PAA P.765)

Category : City
 

When the townsite was established by the CPR in 1904, it already had stockyards, a station, and a store. The name was chosen from a list of suggestions sent in by the post office department. Edgall Brooks was a divisional engineer for the railway at Calgary from 1903 to 1913. Brooks Station post office was established in 1904, and the name was shortened to “Brooks” in 1920. From its beginnings in 1904, it grew large enough to be erected as a village in 1910, and a year later as a town. It was established as a city in 2005.

National Topographic System (NTS) : 72 L/12
 
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Concise Place Names of Alberta

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