McMurray
Alberta oil town
McMurray is a Scottish surname, a variant of McMurry or Murray.
Fort McMurray is a city in northern Alberta, Canada, center of the oil sands industry—often shortened to just McMurray in regional speech: He's working up in McMurray.
The name has become shorthand for Canada's petroleum extraction economy.
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Glasgow · kilt · whisky · loch · thistle · ceilidh · haggis · heather
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patronymic
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- nomenclatureSystem of specialized terms
- appellationName or title given
MacMurray · family name · Irish · Scottish
Highlands
Named elevated regions
Edinburgh · Glasgow · kilt · whisky · loch · thistle · ceilidh · haggis · heather · Burns
ancestry
Family line of descent
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kinfolk
Family members collectively
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McMurraycoastal city
Urban area bordering sea
Vancouver · Halifax · Victoria · St. John's · seaside town
McMurraygreen city
Sustainability-focused urban area
Reykjavik · Copenhagen · protected wilderness · Silicon Valley · Banff