The Christina River is located in the Wood Buffalo region of north-eastern Alberta, Canada.

The Christina is a tributary of the Clearwater River and was named to honour Christine Gordon, who was the first white women to live permanently in the Fort McMurray area.

[5] The waters eventually reach the Arctic Ocean via the Athabasca and Mackenzie Rivers.

[6] Gordon, partly based on knowledge gleaned from a Scottish home nursing book, made her own treatments for illnesses and injuries.

By 1914 she owned and operated a post in Fort McMurray, in competition with the Hudson's Bay Company.