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Taming the Kootenay
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Introduction
1 of 213 		Showing the flood plains of the Purcell trench.
2 of 213 		Map showing the Creston Valley before any dykes were built.
3 of 213 		William Adolph Baillie Grohman
4 of 213 		William Baillie Grohman in his home in Schloss, Austria.
5 of 213 		Baillie Grohman's steamship, the S.S. Midge, which he brought from England to put on Kootenay Lake.
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The rudder from the S.S. Midge. This is one of the few remaining pieces of the Midge.
7 of 213 		Steam whistle from the S.S. Midge.
8 of 213 		Compass from the S.S. Midge.
9 of 213 		Davits from the S.S. Midge.
10 of 213 		Engineers on the Alberta BC Exploration Company houseboat.
11 of 213 		Flood waters at Reclamation Farmhouse, built on the Creston flats in 1895.
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Constructing the dyke at Reclamation Farm
13 of 213 		The shore of Kootenay Lake, showing the high water mark of 1894.
14 of 213 		Bridge built by the Alberta and British Columbia Exploration Company.
15 of 213 		Clippings from the Creston Review newspaper, 1910 to 1920.
16 of 213 		Map showing some of the plans for the dyking and construction on the Kootenay Flats.
17 of 213 		Flooding and natural growth that was common on the flats.
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