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Lloydminster summary
Lloydminster is a Canadian city which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling a provincial border. Unlike most such cases, Lloydminster
is not a pair of twin cities on opposite sides of a border which merely share the same name, but is actually incorporated as a single city with a single municipal
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Intended to be an exclusively British Utopian settlement centred around the idea of sobriety, the town was founded in 1903 by the Barr Colonists, who came directly from
the British Isles. At a time when the area was still part of the Northwest 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 meridian being placed a few hundred meters
west of this longitude.
The town was named for Anglican Bishop George Exton Lloyd, a strong opponent of non-British immigration to Canada. During a nearly disastrous immigration journey, which
was badly planned and conducted, 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.
When the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905, the Fourth Meridian was selected as the border, bisecting the town. For the next quarter century,
Lloydminster remained two separate towns with two separate municipal administrations, but 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.
Commemorating Lloydminster's unique bi-provincial status, a monument consisting of four 100-foot survey markers was erected in 1994 near the city's downtown core.
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Although the majority of Lloydminster's population once lived in Saskatchewan, that ratio has long since been reversed. The Alberta side of the border has seen most of the
city's recent growth. In 2000, the city hall and municipal offices were re-located from Saskatchewan to Alberta.
The local economy is driven primarily by the booming petroleum industry. Agriculture remains an important economic activity, although many farmers in the area have been
sustained financially by lease payments resulting from oil wells drilled on their land.
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Lloydminster's bi-provincial status has resulted in special provisions regarding provincial taxation within the city limits. The Saskatchewan side of the city is exempt
from that province's sales tax, preventing businesses located there from being placed at a disadvantage relative to businesses in Alberta, which has no provincial sales
tax. There is no exemption for provincial income tax, which is based solely on the taxpayer's province of residence.
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