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Fort McMurray

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Fort McMurray

Town in northeast Alberta, Canada; population (1996 est) 35,200. It is situated at the confluence of the Clearwater and Athabasca rivers, 85 km/53 mi west of the Saskatchewan border and 359 km/223 mi north-northeast of Edmonton. The local Great Canadian Oil Sands (GCOS) plant extracts oil from the Athabasca Tar Sands, providing the mainstay for the economy. The town is home to Keyano College.

The North West Company set up a fur trading post, Fort of the Forks, nearby in 1790. Rebuilt and renamed in 1875, Fort McMurray saw little growth until the 1920s, when fish plants and salt extraction developed. The modern town dates from 1964, with the construction of the GCOS plant.



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