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Taming the Kootenay
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Showing the flood plains of the Purcell trench.
1 of 55 		William Adolph Baillie Grohman
2 of 55 		William Baillie Grohman in his home in Schloss, Austria.
3 of 55 		Baillie Grohman's steamship, the S.S. Midge, which he brought from England to put on Kootenay Lake.
4 of 55 		Flood waters at Reclamation Farmhouse, built on the Creston flats in 1895.
5 of 55 		Constructing the dyke at Reclamation Farm
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The shore of Kootenay Lake, showing the high water mark of 1894.
7 of 55 		Clippings from the Creston Review newspaper, 1910 to 1920.
8 of 55 		Flooding and natural growth that was common on the flats.
9 of 55 		Flooding of the flats due to the high water of the Kootenay River.
10 of 55 		Aerial view of the Creston Valley, looking north from below the international border.
11 of 55 		Guy Constable
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Guy Constable on a farm on the flats with his Model A.
13 of 55 		The Creston Review reported on the plans to reclaim and dyke the Kootenay Flats.
14 of 55 		Hay crops being harvested on the Creston Flats.
15 of 55 		Reclamation farmhouse during the 1923 flood.
16 of 55 		Tot Rogers' house during a flood on the Creston flats.
17 of 55 		A native woman by the name of Anastasia with her canoe at the edge of the flood waters.
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