Alberta landowners face loss of properties to prevent flood
SPRING BANK: Mary Robinson is taking it personally.
Her family has been living on Moose Hill Ranch on the edge of the Elbow River since 1888 — when Alberta was still the Northwest Territories and only four years after Calgary was incorporated as a town with a population of 506.
The rolling grasslands and hay fields of the ranch now feature a sprawling log home and an equestrian centre, where countless young people have saddled up for the first time and learned to ride.
It could all be underwater if the Alberta government goes ahead with a plan to build the off-stream Springbank reservoir.