Brooks

city, Alberta, Canada
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Brooks, city, southern Alberta, Canada. It is located on the Trans-Canada Highway, 116 miles (187 km) southeast of Calgary and 67 miles (108 km) northwest of Medicine Hat. The community originated in the late 19th century as a Canadian Pacific Railway flag stop for cattle shipping and was named for Noel Edgell Brooks, a division railroad engineer. The town was incorporated by 1911. In the surrounding area, ranching and the production of natural gas are important; wheat and alfalfa have been grown since 1914, when the railway built an irrigation dam at Bassano on the nearby Bow River. Brooks Aqueduct, ...(100 of 216 words)