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Taming the Kootenay
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William Adolph Baillie Grohman
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William Baillie Grohman in his home in Schloss, Austria.
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Engineers on the Alberta BC Exploration Company houseboat.
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Flood waters at Reclamation Farmhouse, built on the Creston flats in 1895.
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Constructing the dyke at Reclamation Farm
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Guy Constable
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Guy Constable on a farm on the flats with his Model A.
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Hay crops being harvested on the Creston Flats.
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Kootenay River at Bonner's Ferry.
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A native woman by the name of Anastasia with her canoe at the edge of the flood waters.
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Surveyors building dykes on the flats.
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Men dyking the Kootenay River.
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Harry Christenson with one of his scrapers repairing flood damage to the dykes.
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Water rises along the dykes.  Sandbags are being placed to strengthen the dykes.
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Plank boadwalks enabled workers to stay above the muddy ground.
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Filling sandbags on the flats.
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Filling sandbags.
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A line of men working passing sandbags quickly to stop seepage.
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