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Fort McMurray, Alberta/Canada Fort of the Forks, McMurray Established as a fur trading post in 1790 at the confluence of the Athabasca and Clearwater Rivers, hence its first name. It was rebuilt and renamed in 1875 after an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, William McMurray.

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Fort McMurray town (1991 pop. 34,706), NE Alta., Canada, on the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers. Since the beginning of the mining of Alberta's oil sands in 1964, the town's population has grown from 1,200. It is an important river port and transshipment point for the Northwest Territories.

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