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Cold Lake was first recorded on a 1790 map, by the name of Coldwater Lake. [6] Originally three communities, Cold Lake was formed by merging the Town of Grand Centre, the Town of Cold Lake, and Medley (CFB Cold Lake) on October 1, 1996. Grand Centre was renamed Cold Lake South, and the original Cold Lake is known as Cold Lake North.
The city of Cold Lake is located on the south-western shore while the Cold Lake 149A and B Indian reserves of the Cold Lake First Nations are on the western and southern shores respectively. Cold Lake House was a trading post built by the Montreal traders in 1781 near present-day Beaver Crossing, Alberta , south of Cold Lake.
Grand Centre, now known as Cold Lake South, is a former town in Alberta, Canada, that originally incorporated in 1957. Nearly 40 years later, it merged with nearby Cold Lake to the north and Medley to the west, a community on CFB Cold Lake, to form a new municipality named Cold Lake in 1996. It has an elevation of 541 m (1,775 ft).
Smoky Lake County; St. Paul No. 19, County of; Indian reserves. Beaver Lake 131; Cold Lake 149; Cold Lake 149A; Cold Lake 149B; Heart Lake 167; Kehewin 123; Puskiakiwenin 122; Saddle Lake 125; Unipouheos 121; White Fish Lake 128
Under a tax revenue sharing agreement, the City of Cold Lake received a portion of the tax revenue generated by oil and gas activity on the air weapons range in 2012. [5] The revenue made the city more sustainable, offsetting its costs to provide infrastructure and services to support the military base located within the city. [5]
Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake (IATA: YOD, ICAO: CYOD), abbreviated as CFB Cold Lake, [2] is a Canadian Forces Base in the City of Cold Lake, Alberta. [3]The facility is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is approximately 35 km (22 mi) south of the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range (CLAWR), which is used as practicing grounds by CFB Cold Lake's fighter pilots.
Fort McMurray—Cold Lake is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. It was created in 2012 , mostly from the more urbanized portion of Fort McMurray—Athabasca (78%) combined with a portion of Westlock—St. Paul (22%).
Cold Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in northeastern Alberta, Canada. It is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the city of Cold Lake , on Highway 28 , and extends to the Saskatchewan border.