Brooks is a city in southeast Alberta, Canada in the County of Newell. It is on Highway 1 (Trans-Canada Highway) and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway, approximately southeast of Calgary, and northwest of Medicine Hat. The city has an elevation of .
History
The area that is now Brooks was used as a bison-hunting ground for the Blackfoot and Crow tribes. After Treaty 7 was signed in 1877, homesteaders took advantage of the Dominion Lands Act to move into the area to begin farming. Before 1904, the area still did not have a name. Through a contest sponsored by the Postmaster General, the area was named after Noel Edgell Brooks (1865–1926), a Canadian Pacific Railway Divisional Engineer from Calgary.
Brooks was incorporated as a village on July 14, 1910, and then as a town on September 8, 1911. Brooks incorporated as a city on September 1, 2005
In 2010, Brooks celebrated the centennial of its incorporation as a village in 1910.