Category: Euro-Canadian

The Brooks Aqueduct is a 3.2km long reinforced concrete structure constructed between 1912 and 1914 by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The hydrostatic catenary flume design was a unique piece of engineering at the time and is the largest constructed aqueduct of its kind. The aqueduct was part of an irrigation system that allowed the rise of agriculture in southern Alberta in the early 20th Century.