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Taming the Kootenay
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Showing the flood plains of the Purcell trench.
1 of 175 		Baillie Grohman's steamship, the S.S. Midge, which he brought from England to put on Kootenay Lake.
2 of 175 		Engineers on the Alberta BC Exploration Company houseboat.
3 of 175 		Flood waters at Reclamation Farmhouse, built on the Creston flats in 1895.
4 of 175 		Constructing the dyke at Reclamation Farm
5 of 175 		The shore of Kootenay Lake, showing the high water mark of 1894.
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Bridge built by the Alberta and British Columbia Exploration Company.
7 of 175 		Flooding and natural growth that was common on the flats.
8 of 175 		Flooding of the flats due to the high water of the Kootenay River.
9 of 175 		Flooding of the farms in the Creston Valley.
10 of 175 		Aerial view of the Creston Valley, looking north from below the international border.
11 of 175 		Guy Constable
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Guy Constable on a farm on the flats with his Model A.
13 of 175 		Hay crops being harvested on the Creston Flats.
14 of 175 		The Reclamation farmhouse during the 1920 flood. The Rogers family moved into this house in 1929.
15 of 175 		Reclamation farmhouse during the 1923 flood.
16 of 175 		A board and nails from the Reclamation farmhouse.
17 of 175 		Tot Rogers' house during a flood on the Creston flats.
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