(View point over the Creston Flats area several miles north of Creston)

It was the dream, in the 1880s, of WA Baillie-Grohman, British sportsman and financier, to reclaim these fertile flats from the annual river floods.  His canal at Canal Flats diverted part of the Kootenary into the Columbia but was abandoned.  The first successful reclamation was in 1893.  Now 25,110 acres lie secure beyond 53 miles of dykes.