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Melissa Blake is the former mayor of the
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (abbreviated RMWB) is a specialized municipality in northeast Alberta, Canada. It is the largest regional municipality in Canada by area (105650.88km2 , this number includes Wood Buffalo Nation Park o ...
, which includes
Fort McMurray Fort McMurray ( ) is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands, surrounded by boreal forest. It has played a significa ...
. Blake was elected as a municipal councillor in 1998 and re-elected to council in 2001. She was elected mayor in 2004 and would serve for four terms. Blake announced in August 2016 that her fourth term as mayor would be her final and would not campaign for reelection in the 2017 municipal election. In October 2017, she told the Fort McMurray Today she would not be pursuing a political career in the near future. She was succeeded by Don Scott. She is of
Métis The Métis ( , , , ) are a mixed-race Indigenous people whose historical homelands include Canada's three Prairie Provinces extending into parts of Ontario, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the northwest United States. They ha ...
background, and is originally from
Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
. She was educated at Keyano College and
Athabasca University Athabasca University (AU) is a Canadian public university that primarily operates through online distance education. Founded in 1970, it is one of four comprehensive academic and research universities in Alberta, and was the first Canadian ...
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Mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
21st-century mayors of places in Alberta Women mayors of places in Alberta Living people Métis women in politics Year of birth missing (living people) People from Fort McMurray {{Alberta-mayor-stub