Wood Buffalo, Alberta

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Wood Buffalo, Alberta

The regional municipality

Regional municipality

A Regional Municipality is a type of Canada municipal government similar to and at the same municipal government level as a county, although the specific structure and servicing responsibilities may vary from place to place....
of Wood Buffalo is located in northeastern Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is one of Canada Canadian Prairies Provinces and territories of Canada. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S....
. Created in 1995 as an amalgamation of the community of Fort McMurray

Fort McMurray, Alberta

Fort McMurray is a community within the Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Alberta. It was a city between 1980 and April 1, 1995, when it was merged with Improvement District No....
and Improvement District 143, it now ranks the largest in Canada by area. Underlying its of wilderness

Wilderness

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lie vast oil sand

Tar sands

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deposits, also known as the Athabasca Tar Sands, helping to make the region one of the fastest growing industrial areas in Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
.

Until the Alberta electoral boundary re-distribution

Alberta Electoral Boundary Re-distribution, 2004

Current electoral laws in Alberta, Canada fix the number of Legislative Assembly of Alberta seats at 83. Prior to the Alberta general election, 2004, the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission was given the task of re-distributing the province's electoral divisions....
of 2004, the municipality was divided between the provincial

Province

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electoral district

Electoral district

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s of Fort McMurray (the community itself) and Athabasca

Athabasca, Alberta

The town of Athabasca is located in northern Alberta, Canada. It lies north of Edmonton, Alberta on Alberta Highway 2, on the banks of the Athabasca River....
-Wabasca (the surrounding area).

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The regional municipality

Regional municipality

Alberta

Fort McMurray, Alberta

Wilderness

Tar sands

Canada

Alberta Electoral Boundary Re-distribution, 2004

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state....
electoral district

Electoral district

Athabasca, Alberta

The town of Athabasca is located in northern Alberta, Canada. It lies north of Edmonton, Alberta on Alberta Highway 2, on the banks of the Athabasca River....
-Wabasca (the surrounding area). The re-distribution amalgamated the municipality into a single electoral district covering the entire municipality. As a result, the new Wood Buffalo electoral district became the most populous such district in Alberta.

List of communities in the Municipality of Wood Buffalo

Main District

Fort McMurray
Fort McMurray, Alberta

Fort McMurray is a community within the Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Alberta. It was a city between 1980 and April 1, 1995, when it was merged with Improvement District No....

Hamlets

Anzac
Anzac, Alberta

Anzac is a community in the Canada province of Alberta, located within the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta.Anzac was named for the Australian New Zealand Army Corps who surveyed the area during the Great War for constuction of the rail line to Waterways, Alberta....
Conklin
Conklin, Alberta

Conklin is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada. It is located along Alberta Highway 881 between Fort McMurray, Alberta and Lac la Biche, Alberta, at an elevation of ....
Fort Chipewyan
Fort Chipewyan, Alberta

Fort Chipewyan is one of the oldest European settlements in the province of Alberta, Canada. The settlement was established by the North West Company when it setup a trading post there in 1788....
Fort Mackay
Fort MacKay, Alberta

Fort MacKay is a Hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada. It is located in the Wood Buffalo, Alberta, at the northern end of Alberta Highway 63, north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, at an elevation of ....
Gregoire Lake Estates
Janvier South
Saprae Creek

Other communities

Draper
Fort Fitzgerald
Fort Fitzgerald, Alberta

Fort Fitzgerald is a hamlet in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta. The community, which has a population of 30 people, is located 25 kilometres from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories....
Mariana Lakes

Demographics

In 2001, the municipal district had a population of 41,466 in 14,793 dwellings, a 17.8% increase from 1996. On a surface area of 63,400.51 km² it had a density of 0.7 inhabitants/km².

In 2006, Wood Buffalo had a population of 51,496 living in 20,505 dwellings

House

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, a 24.3% increase from 2001. The regional municipality has a land area of and a population density

Population density

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of .

More than 12% of residents identified as aboriginal at the time of the 2006 census.

Nearly 85% of residents identified English

English language

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, and 3% identified French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, as their first language

First language

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. The next most common languages are Cree

Cree language

Cree is the name for a group of closely-related Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 117,000 people across Canada, from the Northwest Territories to Labrador, making it by far the most spoken Native American languages in Canada....
, Spanish

Spanish language

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and Arabic

Arabic language

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at 1.2% each; Tagalog

Tagalog language

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and Chinese

Chinese language

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at 0.8% each; Dene/Chipewyan

Dene Suline language

Dene Suline is the language spoken by the Chipewyan people of central Canada. It is a part of the Athabaskan languages and therefore related to the Navajo language....
and Urdu

Urdu

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at 0.6% each, and German

German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
at 0.5%.

Wood Buffalo is home to almost 2,000 recent immigrants (arriving between 2001 and 2006) who now make up more than 3% of the population. About 21% of these immigrants came from India

India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, while about 10% came from each of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
and the Philippines

Philippines

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, and about 9% came from Venezuela

Venezuela

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, and about 8% from South Africa

South Africa

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, about 6% from China

China

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, and about 3% came from Colombia

Colombia

Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
.

More than 80% of residents identified as Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
at the time of the 2001 census while almost 17% indicated they had no religious affiliation. For specific denominations Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada

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counted 15,880 Roman Catholics (37.4%), 4,985 Anglicans

Anglican Church of Canada

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(11.7%), 4,225 for the United Church of Canada

United Church of Canada

The United Church of Canada, one of the largest Christian churches in Canada, is an evangelical Protestant denomination with strong Methodist and Presbyterian roots....
(9.9%), 1,730 Pentecostals (4.1%), 1,195 Baptist

Baptist

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s (2.8%), 965 for the Salvation Army

Salvation Army

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the Christian Church. It has a quasi-military structure and it was founded in 1865 in Great Britian as the East London Christian Mission by William Booth and Catherine Booth....
(2.3%), 900 Lutherans (2.1%), 690 Muslim

Muslim

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s (1.6%), 350 Mormon

Mormon

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s (0.8%), and 320 Presbyterians (0.8%).

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