George Chaffey (28 January 1848 – 1 March 1932) was a Canadian engineer, inventor and entrepreneur who with his brother William developed large parts of Southern California, including what became the community of Etiwanda and the cities of Ontario, and Upland. They undertook similar developments in Australia, which became the city of Mildura, and the town of Renmark and Paringa.[1]
^Westcott, Peter (1979). "Chaffey, George (1848–1932)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 7. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
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be diverted and allowed to flow there entirely by gravity. Engineer GeorgeChaffey was hired to design the Alamo Canal, which split from the Colorado near...
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