Alberta
Named by contest on the Trans-Canada
Blackfoot and Crow hunters knew the Brooks plains long before Treaty 7 opened the land to homesteaders. Until 1904 the spot had no official name; a Postmaster General contest settled it on Noel Edgell Brooks, a CPR engineer from Calgary.
Village status came in 1910, town status in 1911, and city status in 2005. Highway 1 and the railway still run through town, Dinosaur Provincial Park sits about 48 kilometres northeast, and the old Brooks Aqueduct remains a concrete reminder of prairie irrigation ambition.
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Livability
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
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Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
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Brooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada in the County of Newell.
It is on Highway 1 and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway, approximately 186 km (116 mi) southeast of Calgary, and 110 km (68 mi) northwest of Medicine Hat.
The city has an elevation of 760 m (2,490 ft).
Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of badlands fossil beds, lies about 48 kilometres northeast of Brooks.
Built by Canadian Pacific Railway's irrigation division to supply prairie farms, this elevated concrete aqueduct was once among the world's longest of its kind and is now a historic site near Brooks.
