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Grande Prairie - Profile

Like many northern cities, Grande Prairie has progressed from a fur trappers' settlement through a rough and severe era of dependency on subsistence farming, ranching and lumbering, to a new era in which it is reassessing its resources and changing prospects. Today the city offers the amenities and cultural opportunities generally available only in much older communities.

Grande Prairie was incorporated as a village on April 30, 1914 and became a town on March 27, 1919; its population growing to 4,000 by 1948. In 1958, when Grande Prairie became a city, population had grown to 7,800. Today, Grande Prairie has grown to over 28,000.

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