In the summer of 1919 the C.P.R., which came as far as Russell, started negotiations for a right of way north.  After several surveys, they started building. In the fall of 1921 the grade was finished to the farm of W.N. Berrington, section 36-22-28.  The rails were laid to a siding named Cracknell, six miles north of Russell where elevators had been built.  The next year the rails were laid to the end of the line the village of Inglis, in 1922. (more)