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Brooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada surrounded by the County of Newell. It is located on Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) and the Canadian Pacific Railway, approximately southeast of Calgary, and northwest of Medicine Hat. The city has an elevation of . == History == The area that is now Brooks was originally used as a bison hunting ground for the Blackfoot and Crow. After Treaty 7 was signed in 1877, homesteaders moved into the area to begin farming. Before 1904, the area still did not have a name. Through a Postmaster General-sponsored contest, the area was named after Noel Edgell Brooks, a Canadian Pacific Railway Divisional Engineer from Calgary. Brooks incorporated as a village on July 14, 1910, and then as a town on September 8, 1911.〔 Its population in the 1911 Census of Canada was 486.〔 In the 1996 Census, the population of Brooks reached 10,093〔 making it eligible for city status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Types of Municipalities in Alberta )〕 Brooks incorporated as a city on September 1, 2005〔 when its official population was 11,604. In 2010, Brooks celebrated its centennial as a municipality since originally incorporating as a village in 1910.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2010 Centennial )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brooks, Alberta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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