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- 1900-1981, predominant 1915-1934 (Creation)
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43.5 cm of textual records
295 photographs.
2 audio cassettes
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Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Eastern Irrigation District and Federal Water Resources Branch, 1964-1988.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of annual reports (1915-1934); extensive plans of water sources, lakes, irrigation works, railway crossings, canals, siphons, flumes, headgates and other irrigation structures, including the Bassano Dam and Brooks Aqueduct (1912-1972); topographical and townsites maps for the area within Ranges 11-18 and Townships 14-25, west of the 4th Meridian; and photographs of a wide range of irrigation structures (1900-1940s) as well as the 1915 floods in Calgary and Edmonton. Includes an interview with former general manager Robert T. White (1981).
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No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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Existence and location of copies
Digital content is available: https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/Package/2R3BF1S3QZIJ8
Related units of description
Additional records, and originals of the microfilmed material, are in the EID Archives, Brooks, Alberta.
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Title based on contents of records.
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M 6388 contains photos not included in extent.
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Microfilm-EID
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Microfiche-EID
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Tuesday, October 30, 2018