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As of May 4, authorities hadn’t determined the origin of the Fort McMurray wildfire. In the absence of that data, the chart below tracks 10 years of wildfire data in Alberta. Each year ...
Fort McMurray's first census since the devastating 2016 wildfire suggests the region's population dropped by nearly 11 per cent over a three-year span. A census conducted in 2018 recorded an ...
The entire 80,000 population of Fort McMurray in Canada is having to flee their homes after a huge wildfire broke out causing chaos and devastation. Authorities in the area of Alberta are now ...
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The sky in northern Alberta’s Fort McMurray resembled a wall of fire and smoke Wednesday as a mammoth inferno swallowed parts of the Canadian city. Authorities ordered the evacuation of about ...
The town of Fort McMurray, some four hundred miles north of Calgary, in Canada, grew up very quickly on both sides of the Athabasca River. During the nineteen-seventies, the population of the town ...
"The Beast" is still smouldering in the Canadian wilderness a year after the devastating inferno nearly destroyed Alberta's Fort McMurray ... not expect the town's population to shrink.
By 1986, “Newfies” comprised 14 percent of Fort McMurray’s population, which had jumped to 88,000, and many were of a type: hard-living, hardworking, unfiltered white guys in baseball caps ...
Mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction is the biggest industry in the Fort McMurray region employing 13,200 people, or 32% of the local working population, according to a 2021 labor study by ...
Fort McMurray's first census since the devastating 2016 wildfire suggests the region's population dropped by nearly 11 per cent over a three-year span. A census conducted in 2018 recorded an overall ...