Grande Prairie

Grande Prairie
/grand/
a city in W Alberta, in W Canada. 17,626.

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      city, western Alberta, Canada. It lies along the Bear River, near the British Columbia border, 286 miles (460 km) northwest of Edmonton. Its name comes from the way 19th-century fur traders described the open parkland that surrounded the town site. A trading post was established in 1881, but the settlement's real development began with the arrival of the Northern Alberta Railway (1916). This opened the Peace River district of northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia to large-scale homesteading, and Grande Prairie became the regional centre. Its modern economy is based on agriculture, forest products, and the oil and natural-gas industry, augmented by tourism. Grande Prairie Regional College was established in 1966. In the vicinity are Saskatoon Island Provincial Park and Kleskun Hill, a site where dinosaur fossils have been found. Inc. village, 1914; town, 1918; city, 1958. Pop. (2006) 47,076.

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