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3 unusual facts about Northern Alberta


Marty Chan

He is well known for his six-year run on CBC Radio of The Dim Sum Diaries, a series of short vignettes about his life growing up in small-town Northern Alberta as the only Chinese family around.

Northern Alberta

Other tourist attractions in Northern Alberta include the Fort McMurray Historical Society-Heritage Park, Historic Dunvegan, Kimiwan Birdwalk and Interpretive Centre, Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory in the Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park, Muskoseepi Park, and the Oil Sands Discovery Centre.

Slavey people

The South Slavey live in north western Alberta, north eastern British Columbia, and the southern Northwest Territories.


Beaverhill Lake Group

Oil is produced from the Swan Hills Formation in the Swan Hills area of northern Alberta since 1957, which is a similar Devonian reef structure as the Leduc Formation and the Rainbow Member in Alberta.


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Andrée Watters

Watters' brother Patrick, who worked as a firefighter in Alberta, Canada, was killed in July 2007 in a helicopter crash while he and several hundred other firefighters combated a major forest fire near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta.

Aquifer

The McMurray Formation in the Athabaska oil sands in northern Alberta, consists of "sandstone and shale deposited in a transgressive geological sequence", resulting in the "course grained texture of the basal deposits".

Beaver River sandstone

Beaver River sandstone is a rock material locally found in northern Alberta, Canada, that was extensively used by First Nations people in prehistoric times to make tools with a sharp edge.

Buffalo River

Buffalo River (Alberta), a river in northern Alberta, Canada, tributary of the Peace River

Fairview, Alberta

Fairview Airport, an airport near the Town of Fairview in northern Alberta

Fairview No. 136, Alberta, a municipal district surrounding the Town of Fairview in northern Alberta, Canada

K19

K19 pipe, a diatreme in the southwestern part of the Buffalo Head Hills kimberlite field in Northern Alberta, Canada

Nor-Alta Aviation

Frequent destinations for charter flights include the communities of the Little Red River Cree Nation, as well as Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Edmonton, and several fishing lodges and oil camps throughout northern Alberta.

Petitot

Petitot River, in northern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, named in honor of Émile Petitot

Plains All American Pipeline

The Rainbow Pipeline system, owned by Plains Midstream Canada, ruptured, spilling 28,000 barrels of oil in a fairly isolated stretch of boreal forest in northern Alberta, about four miles from the nearest homes in Little Buffalo, Alberta.

Schnabel car

One notable load of CEBX 800 was completed in January 2006, transporting a reactor for Nexen Inc. and OPTI Canada from Duluth, Minnesota to the Athabasca oil sands in northern Alberta.

Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories

Charles Rouleau (February 18, 1888 - August 25, 1901), Northern Alberta Judicial District

The Smalls

Later on, the line-up consistently included vocalist Mike Caldwell and bassist Corb Lund from the town of Taber, Alberta, guitarist Dug Bevans from Leduc, Alberta and drummer Terry Johnson from the northern Alberta town of La Glace.