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Cranbrook, city, southeastern corner of British Columbia, Canada. It lies in the Kootenay River valley on the western edge of the Rocky Mountain Trench. The region was first settled about 1863 by gold prospectors. Cranbrook was probably named for a town near the farm home in Kent, England, of one of the settlers, Colonel James Baker. The Canadian Pacific Railroad’s Crowsnest branchline reached the site in 1898. Now a highway and railway junction and a...

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