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| pivot irrigation equipment |
696 miles
Dec 9 - “This area
is not suitable for growing crops,” said surveyor John Palliser in 1863. While ranching and grazing eventually became
common, growing crops was not successful. By the 1930s, this area was a dust
bowl. During World War II, Pacific Coast
Japanese-Canadians were sent here to work in the labor-intensive sugar beet
fields, using primitive open trench irrigation methods. Later, pivot irrigation systems made commercial
agriculture viable in this area.
Near
Cranford is a Hutterite community, called the “Lakeside Bruderhof”, founded in
1935.
irrigation
info: http://public.museums.ab.ca/museums.cfm?ItemID=10
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