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Taming the Kootenay
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Baillie Grohman's steamship, the S.S. Midge, which he brought from England to put on Kootenay Lake.
1 of 95 		Engineers on the Alberta BC Exploration Company houseboat.
2 of 95 		Constructing the dyke at Reclamation Farm
3 of 95 		Guy Constable on a farm on the flats with his Model A.
4 of 95 		Hay crops being harvested on the Creston Flats.
5 of 95 		The Holben combine on Reclamation Farm.
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Dredge in Porthill working on dyking the river.
7 of 95 		Digging drainage ditches on the flats to help keep the farmlands dry.
8 of 95 		Machinery used to divert the Goat River into the Kootenay River.
9 of 95 		Working on diverting the Goat River into the Kootenay River.
10 of 95 		Diversion of the Goat River.
11 of 95 		Digging the diversion channel that would allow the Goat River to flow into the Kootenay.
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Goat River diversion channel.
13 of 95 		Surveyors building dykes on the flats.
14 of 95 		Men dyking the Kootenay River.
15 of 95 		Dredge used for building dykes along the Kootenay River.
16 of 95 		Dredges were used to construct dykes on the Kootenay Flats.
17 of 95 		Huge scrapers working on the dyking of the flats.
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