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Taming the Kootenay
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William Adolph Baillie Grohman
1 of 44 		William Baillie Grohman in his home in Schloss, Austria.
2 of 44 		Engineers on the Alberta BC Exploration Company houseboat.
3 of 44 		Constructing the dyke at Reclamation Farm
4 of 44 		Guy Constable
5 of 44 		Guy Constable on a farm on the flats with his Model A.
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Hay crops being harvested on the Creston Flats.
7 of 44 		The Holben combine on Reclamation Farm.
8 of 44 		Surveyors building dykes on the flats.
9 of 44 		Men dyking the Kootenay River.
10 of 44 		Harry Christenson with one of his scrapers repairing flood damage to the dykes.
11 of 44 		Burton Bishop and John Verkirk, among others, helping in the sandbagging efforts.
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Flooded farms and homes south of Creston.
13 of 44 		Building the forms for the sandbag walls.
14 of 44 		Men passing sandbags to thestack on the right, along the inner side of the dykes.
15 of 44 		Placing sandbags along the dykes.
16 of 44 		Bracing the dykes against seepage.
17 of 44 		Filling sandbags that were used to brace the dykes and stop them from cracking.
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