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English
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The Canadian-American Irrigation Frontier, 1884-1914
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Agricultural History
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October 1966
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40
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271-83
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Residents of southern Alberta began to promote reclamation projects about 1884 and welcomed Mormon immigrants as people who knew how to irrigate. The campaign to gain support for reclamation resulted in the Northwest Irrigation Act of 1894.