Lloydminster

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the
electoral
districts
named
for
this
district) and Lloydminster (Alberta electoral district).

city,

Lloydminster
City
City of Lloydminster

An aerial view of Lloydminster City Hall

looking North along the Alberta /
Saskatchewan border

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Seal

Nickname(s): "Border City" or "Canada's

Border City", "Heavy Oil Capital of Canada" [1][2]

see Lloydminster

(electoral

Location of Lloydminster in Alberta and Saskatchewan

Coordinates:
:

5316.7N 1100.3WCoordinates

5316.7N 1100.3W

Country
Provinces
Regions

Census divisions
Incorporated[3]
Village (SK)
Village (AB)
Town (SK)
Amalgamation
City
Government[4]
Mayor
Governing body
City Manager
MP

MLA
Area (2011)[5][6]
City

Canada
Alberta (AB)
Saskatchewan (SK)
Central
Alberta,
West
Central
Saskatchewan
10 (AB), 17 (SK)
November 25, 1903
July 6, 1906
April 1, 1907
May 22, 1930
January 1, 1958
Rob Saunders
Lloydminster
City
Council[show]
Glenn Carroll
Shannon
Stubbs (AB,CPC)
Gerry Ritz (SK, CPC)
Richard Starke (AB,PC)
Colleen Young (SK,SP)
41.53 km2(16.03 sq mi)

Elevation[7]

645 m (2,116 ft)

Population (2011)[5][6][9]
City
27,804

18,032
(AB)
9,772 (SK)
Density
669.5/km2(1,734/sq mi)
Urban
27,804
Municipal
31,377[8]
census(2015)

19,740
(AB)
11,637 (SK)
Time zone
Summer (DST)

MST (UTC7)
MDT (UTC6)

Postal code span

Area code(s)

T9V (AB), S9V (SK)

306, 587, 639, 780

Website

Official website

Lloydminster is a Canadian city which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling
the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan.[10] Unlike most such cases (such
as Texarkana and Kansas City), Lloydminster is not a pair of twin cities on opposite sides of a
border which merely share the same name, but is actually incorporated by both provinces as a
single city with a single municipal administration.

Contents
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1History

2Geography
o

2.1Climate

3Demographics

4Economy

5Government
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5.1Taxation
6Infrastructure

6.1Health care

6.2Transportation

7Education

8Media

9Notable people

10See also

11References

12External links

History[edit]

Barr colonists 1903

Intended to be an exclusively British Utopian settlement centred on the idea ofsobriety, the town
was founded in 1903 by the Barr Colonists, who came directly from the United Kingdom.[11] At a
time when the area was still part of the North-West Territories, the town was located astride the
Fourth Meridian of the Dominion Land Survey. This meridian was intended to coincide with 110
west longitude, although the imperfect surveying methods of the time led to the surveyed
meridian being placed a few hundred meters west of this longitude. [citation needed]
The town was named for George Lloyd (Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan), a strong opponent of
non-British immigration to Canada. During a nearly disastrous immigration journey, which was
badly planned and conducted,[12] he distinguished himself with the colonists and replaced
the Barr Colony's leader and namesake Isaac Montgomery Barr during the colonists' journey to
the eventual townsite.[citation needed]
The town developed rapidly: by 1904 there was a telegraph office as well as a log church; in
1905 the Lloydminster Daily Times started publication and the first train arrived on July 28.[13]
While provincehood of some sort for the prairie territories was seen as inevitable by 1903, it had
been widely expected that only one province would eventually be created instead of two. The
colonists were not aware of the federal government's deep-rooted opposition to the creation of a
single province and thus had no way of knowing that the Fourth Meridian was under
consideration as a future provincial boundary. Had they known, it is very unlikely they would have
sited the new settlement on the future border.[citation needed]

When the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905, the Fourth Meridian was
selected as the border, bisecting the town. Caught by surprise, Lloydminster residents petitioned
for the new border to be revised so as to encompass the entire town within Saskatchewan,
without success.[citation needed]
For the next quarter century, Lloydminster remained two separate towns with two separate
municipal administrations. Finally, in 1930 the provincial governments agreed to amalgamate the
towns into a single town under shared jurisdiction. The provinces, again jointly, reincorporated
Lloydminster as a city in 1958.[citation needed]
Commemorating Lloydminster's distinctive bi-provincial status, a monument consisting of four
100-foot survey markers was erected in 1994 near the city's downtown core. [14]
Although the majority of Lloydminster's population once lived in Saskatchewan, that ratio has
long since been reversed; in the Canada 2011 Census, nearly two-thirds of the city's population
lived in Alberta. In 2000, the city halland municipal offices were re-located from Saskatchewan to
Alberta.[citation needed]
Since Lloydminster's founders were attempting to create a utopian, temperate society, alcohol
was not available in Lloydminster for the first few years after its founding. [citation needed]