Lloydminster

Lloydminster is a Canadian city which has the bizarre geographic qualification of straddling the common fringe among Alberta and Saskatchewan. Dissimilar to most such cases, for example, Texarkana and Kansas City, Lloydminster isn't a couple of twin urban areas on inverse sides of an outskirt which just offer a similar name, however is consolidated by the two regions as a solitary city with a solitary metropolitan organization. Proposed to be an only British Utopian settlement focused on the possibility of restraint, the town was established in 1903 by the Barr Colonists, who came straightforwardly from the United Kingdom.

During a period when the zone was still piece of the North-West Territories, the town was found with on leg on each side of the Fourth Meridian of the Dominion Land Survey. This meridian was proposed to concur with 110° west longitude, despite the fact that the defective reviewing techniques for the time prompted the overviewed meridian being put a couple of hundred meters west of this longitude. The town was named for George Lloyd Anglican Bishop of Saskatchewan, a solid adversary of non-British movement to Canada. Amid an about lamentable movement venture, which was seriously arranged and led, he separated himself with the settlers and supplanted the Barr Colony's pioneer and namesake Isaac Montgomery Barr amid the pilgrims' adventure to the possible townsite.