Red Deer is a city in central Alberta, Canada. It is located near the midpoint of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor, and is Alberta's third most populous city—after Calgary and Edmonton. Red Deer is located in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills focused on oil, grain, and cattle production. The city is a centre for oil and agriculture distribution, and the surrounding region is a major centre for petrochemical production.

The city takes its name from Scottish immigrants who, seeing both White Tail and Mule Deer, mistook them for the deer of their ancestral home. Thus a river flowing through this area would be called the Red Deer River, and may have been originally called was-ka-soo which means "elk river" in the Cree aboriginal language. Waskasoo is a tributary creek of the Red Deer River and is also a neighborhood overlooking the Red Deer River.

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