Import of old Chrome bookmarks... (?)

On my 2007 iMac, running OS x 10.6.8 with the latest compatible version of Chrome, and I received a warning that this (old) version of Chrome would soon no longer be supported. no surprise, as he was still of time for an update of the system. I was happy to know that I would be able to run El Capitan on the old Mac, so I backed up using Carbon Copy Cloner and a clean set of El Capitan.

The question I have is how do to import my favorites from (old) Chrome - I probably should I have exported them before I wiped the system, but I thought I could just import the old bookmark from my backup file. I have a file "Bookmarks.bak" and another one called simply "bookmarks" no file extension manifest. I think that if I could find an old Mac running an earlier version of Chrome that I could import and then export them as HTML...? I know not--a bit lost for what to do here, and any idea would be appreciated, thanks.

Tom

When I rename the file bak in html and try to import into Chrome, nothing happens. I see when I open the file in a browser tab has it all bookmarks and URLs, etc. in the text, so I don't know if there is a problem of formatting... (?)

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