The Alberta government recently named two creeks in honour of the contributions made by three Albertans.
Skrine Creek, located 24 kilometres west of Nanton, has been named in honour of Walter and Agnes Skrine.
The Skrine family established the Bar S Ranch on Mosquito Creek in 1887, building and maintaining a herd of up to 700 cattle on nearly 16,000 acres of leased land.
Bill Griffiths, a fisheries biologist with Alberta Fish and Wildlife, worked with local fish and game clubs to complete a fisheries enhancement program in the critical trout spawning waters of the newly named Bill Griffiths Creek near Canmore.
Those efforts helped make the Bow River one of the most important trout fisheries in Canada.
Albertans can propose names for a specific geographic resource by submitting an application to the provincial government’s Historic Resources Management Branch.
