The Brooks Aqueduct is a defunct aqueduct, historic site and museum originally built by the irrigation division of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company during the early 1910s located in Southern Alberta, Canada.
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This place is 20 minutes of low key fun for engineering nerds.
I have driven past signs to the aqueduct many times over the last 40 years and have always wanted to stop.
It was well worth the 20 minutes it took us to visit. If you like local history or engineering history from the early 1900's you will like it.
This is the perfect place for people that enjoy things like finding arrowheads, metal detecting, looking for fossils,or seeing interesting geography. Not that any of that stuff is here, just that the type of person that likes that type of stuff will also like seeing this place for a...
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Loved seeing this piece of Sputhern Alberta history. The signs were great with lots of helpful and interesting information. My 6 year old loved seeing the aqueduct and trying to figure out how it would have worked.
It's a fairly quick visit or you can of course spend longer if you want to walk down its length. Standing by the one end is helpful for scale for kids...
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This is a unique historical site in Alberta's Grasslands region and has a lot of information about why it was an important part of the area's history. There is a great walking trail, year round washroom facilities, ample parking and lots of places to take really interesting photos. I would absolutely recommend taking the extra ten minute drive from Brooks to check...
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