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Lift Truck Chain Cold Lake - Cold Lake is a city within northeastern Alberta, Canada, named after the lake it is located near. The city is located in Alberta's "Lakeland" region, 300 km northeast of Edmonton, near the Alberta-Saskatchewan provincial border. The region surrounding the city of Cold Lake is sparsely populated, and comprises mainly of farmland. The Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, situated towards the north of the city, is the Canadian equivalent to the Air Force's Nellis Air Force Range of the United States.

It was the year 1970 when Cold Lake was first recorded on a map, under the name Coldwater Lake. More recently, on October 1, the year 1996, the three original communities of the Town of Cold Lake, the Town of Grand Centre, and Medley (Canadian Forces Base 4 Wing) merged into Cold Lake. Grand Centre was renamed Cold Lake South, and the original Cold Lake is known to Cold Lake North. Because of its origins, the area is also called the Tri-Town.

The city's economy is heavily dependent upon the military and its base called CFB Cold Lake. Additionally, the area has an emerging oil and gas exploration sector. The Athabasca Oil Sands project in Fort McMurray is having a growing influence in the region as well. The Cold Lake oil sands could become an essential contributor to the economy of Cold Lake.

Each and every year the city of Cold Lake hosts military forces from all over the world for Exercise Maple Flag, a training exercise where support staff and pilots of NATO allies can take advantage of the Air Weapons Range and relatively open rural air space. Running from 4 to 6 weeks and beginning during the month of May of each and every year, commercial accommodations in the entire region are left with little to no vacancy. This annual exercise contributes a substantial amount of capital into these industries and other hospitality-related industries.

CFB Cold Lake or also called Canadian forces Base Cold Lake is an air force base located within the city of Cold Lake. It is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force and is among two bases in the nation making use of the CF-18 Hornet fighter/interceptor. Its primary lodger unit is 4 Wing.

Civilian passenger service was accessible through the Medley passenger terminal on the periphery of the air base. The regularly scheduled air service between the civilian terminal and Calgary was canceled in June 2011. Unscheduled civilian air traffic is usually directed to the Cold Lake Regional Airport. Cold Lake/Group Captain R.W McNair Airport is the name of the facility. It is one of just three military aerodromes in the country to be named after a person, Valcartier Heliport and Moose Jaw/Air Vice Marshal C.M. McEwen Airport being the others.