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!!!Elbow river near Bragg Creek

[{Image src='Elbow near Bragg Creek, 2004.jpg' caption='Photo: H. Maurer, Dec. 2004' height='600' class='image_left' width='900'}]

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Bragg Creek is located 30 km  west of Calgary [{GoogleMap location='Calgary, Alberta; Bragg Creek, Alberta' zoom='14'}](via Highway 8 and Highway 22) 
at the confluence of the Elbow River and Bragg Creek.

Bragg Creek [{GoogleMap location='50.9535525,-114.5718054' zoom='14'}] is named after Albert Warren Bragg from Collingwood, Nova Scotia and his 14-year old brother John Thomas who homesteaded in the area in 1894. 

The community was established between a forestry reserve, the Sarcee Indian reserve, and a Provincial Park. . Ranching was the original occupation in Bragg Creek. it has now become 
a modest 
tourist attraction due to the neighboring Elbow falls (see next picture) and the Bragg Creek ice caves, the latter only for serious hikers (some 6-8 hours round trip).
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