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Taming the Kootenay
Location: Nick's Island, west of Creston, BC

 
Bridge built by the Alberta and British Columbia Exploration Company.
1 of 8 		Women standing in the flood waters
2 of 8 		Mae Holder and Zoe Kanester on the Reclamation Road, taken before the dykes went out.
3 of 8 		Margaret Berg and her daughter Marion, bringing a snack out to the men combining on the flats.
4 of 8 		George Ramseier operating a 1941 Massey-Harris self-propelled combine, on his farm on Nick's Island.
5 of 8 		Archie Beatty (on tractor) and Ernie Geneau (on combine), combining wheat on George Ramseier's farm.
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Grazing land on Nick's Island.
7 of 8 		Margaret Berg recalls the flood of 1948.
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