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Brooks

Town in southeastern Alberta, Canada, in Newell County, 185 km/115 mi southeast of Calgary; population (1996 est) 9,400. It is situated in an area of irrigated farm and ranch land. Agricultural products are traded and processed here, as is natural gas. Local tourism is based partly on hunting.

Settlement began when the Canadian Pacific Railway built an irrigation dam nearby in 1914. There are several horticultural and wildlife research centres, including a pheasant hatchery. Also nearby are Kinbrook Island Provincial Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Brooks and District Historical Museum, and Brooks Aqueduct (1914), which is a national historic site.



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The glass city had several fine streets, for a good many people lived there; but when the procession had passed through these it came upon a broad plain covered with gardens and watered by many pretty brooks that flowed through it.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
The sun is sometimes obscured for weeks, the brooks swell into roaring torrents, and the country is threatened with a deluge.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
In his wild flight, he leaped over brambles and bushes, and across brooks and ponds, as if he were a goat or a hare chased by hounds.
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