McMurray Dollar - Fort McMurray, Alberta

McMurray Dollar - Fort McMurray, Alberta - obverseMcMurray Dollar - Fort McMurray, Alberta - reverse

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Features

Location Canada
Type Trade tokens › Local administration token
Year 1977
Value 1 Dollar
Currency Canada - Local Dollar Tokens
Composition Nickel
Weight 14.0 g
Diameter 33 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized 31 December 1977
Number
N#
70715
References Pel# AB95
Serge Pelletier; 1993. Standard catalogue of Canadian municipal trade tokens. St. Eligius Press, Sainte-Julie, Quebec, Canada.

Obverse

Coat of arms of Fort McMurray with legend

Script: Latin

Lettering:
NEW TOWN OF FORT MCMURRAY

Progress and Prosper

ALBERTA, CANADA

Reverse

Map of the province of Alberta (with Fort McMurray's location marked with an oil drop) with symbols of equipment used in the oil and gas industry.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FORT MCMURRAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Fort
McMurray

PROVINCE
OF
ALBERTA

McMURRAY DOLLAR
EXPIRES DECEMBER 31, 1977

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Mintmark of Sherritt Mint Sherritt Mint, Fort Saskatchewan, Canada (1927-date)

Comments

Fort McMurray is an area of shifting legal status in Alberta's northern reaches, and has since become infamous as a modern boomtown, where the town's population is directly correlated with oil's price per barrel.

When this token was made, Fort McMurray was a "New Town", an obsolete legal designation given by the Province of Alberta to certain recent settlements. In 1980, the settlement became a City. But in 1995, this status was changed yet again, and Fort McMurray is now an "urban service area", or, a "specialized municipality". It shares this interesting legal status only with Sherwood Park, Alberta. In both cases, the government of the town was merged with the government of the surrounding county, due to a high density of non-urban settlement or economic activity. So, Fort McMurray is merged with the surrounding Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, and Sherwood Park is merged with surrounding Strathcona County.

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
1977  10 000
1977  25
1977  15

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