Making Fort McMurray Home: Space and Place on Canada’s New Frontier of Oil Production

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the city of Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta, has welcomed tens of thousands of newcomers attracted by the high salaries of a booming oil sands industry. In this context, one of the major challenges faced by the municipality and the companies is to retain e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sandrine Tolazzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine
Series:L'Ordinaire des Amériques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/orda/3008