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Taming the Kootenay
Images: Landscape

 
The Holben combine on Reclamation Farm.
19 of 175 		Kootenay River at Bonner's Ferry.
20 of 175 		Dredge in Porthill working on dyking the river.
21 of 175 		A native woman by the name of Anastasia with her canoe at the edge of the flood waters.
22 of 175 		The camp of Louie Luke on the flats near West Creston.
23 of 175 		Teepees of the Ktunaxa people located half a mile upstream of the West Creston ferry.
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Photo taken near Kootenay Valley road looking onto the flats before dyking.
25 of 175 		Digging drainage ditches on the flats to help keep the farmlands dry.
26 of 175 		Creston Flats before dyking.
27 of 175 		Creston Flats, the winter before they would be successfully dyked and used as farmland.
28 of 175 		The 'S' bridge over the Goat River to West Creston.
29 of 175 		Aerial view of the Creston Flats showing the blocks of farmland.
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Machinery used to divert the Goat River into the Kootenay River.
31 of 175 		Working on diverting the Goat River into the Kootenay River.
32 of 175 		Diversion of the Goat River.
33 of 175 		Digging the diversion channel that would allow the Goat River to flow into the Kootenay.
34 of 175 		Goat River diversion channel.
35 of 175 		Looking north towards Duck Lake
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