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 City of Brooks' 100th Anniversary - Brooks, Alberta
N 50° 33.843 W 111° 53.915
12U E 436358 N 5601732
This colourful mosaic marks the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the municipality. It can be found just inside the front doors.
Waymark Code: WMW2V8
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 07/03/2017
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This colourful mosaic marks the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the municipality. It can be found just inside the front doors.
Nearly 15,000 people call Brooks home and so while it was incorporated as a village in 1910 it has since received status as a town and now as a city.
Pre-European settlement included the Blackfoot and Crow Indigenous peoples. After Treaty 7 was signed in 1877, homesteaders moved into the area to begin farming. Before 1904, the area still did not have a name. Through a Postmaster General-sponsored contest, the area was named after Noel Edgell Brooks, a Canadian Pacific Railway Divisional Engineer from Calgary.
Subject: City
Commemoration: 100th Anniversary
Date of Founding: 1910
Date of Commemoration: 2010
Address:
201 - 1st Avenue West, Brooks, AB T1R 1B7
Overview Photograph:
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Detail Photograph:
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Web site if available: [Web Link]
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