Brooks
Town
72 L
Approximately 100 km north-west of Medicine Hat.
When the townsite was established by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1904, it already had
stockyards, a station and a store. The name was chosen from a list of suggestions sent in by the Post Office department. Edgall Brooks was a Divisional Engineer for the railway
at Calgary from 1903-1913. Brooks Station post office was established on December 1, 1904, and the name was changed to Brooks on June 1, 1920. From its beginnings in 1904, it grew large enough to be incorporated as a village in 1910, and a year later as a town.