Klaas W. Brandt was a teenage runaway who didn’t want to follow in the farming footsteps of his parents and family. Instead, he studied engineering and had a hand in building the 156 kilometre-long Shoal Lake aqueduct, a huge pipeline that continues to bring safe drinking water to Winnipeg over 100 years later.
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