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Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta [3] and Saskatchewan. [10] [11] The city is incorporated by both provinces as a single city with a single municipal administration.
English: Automatically generated series of street maps depicting Alberta urban communities. Municipal boundaries: AltaLIS open data accessed May 25, 2019. Road network: Statistics Canada NRN 2018.
Survey markers were erected in Lloydminster to demark the Saskatchewan–Alberta boundary. [3] [4] Lloydminster is one of two Canadian cities on a provincial boundary and the gateway to Alberta. It currently ranks in size as the 89th largest city in Canada. The two sides of the city rank 10th in Alberta and 11th in Saskatchewan in municipal ...
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 16, commonly referred to as Highway 16, is a major east–west highway in central Alberta, Canada, connecting Jasper to Lloydminster via Edmonton. It forms a portion of the Yellowhead Highway , a major interprovincial route of the Trans-Canada Highway system that stretches from Masset , British Columbia, to ...
In Lloydminster, Highway 17 runs along the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. It is named 50 Avenue and is historically called Meridian Avenue. Despite Lloydminster's size and 50 Avenue functioning as one of the primary north–south routes in the city, the highway is an undivided two-lane road for most of its course through the city. [2]
Despite the City of Lloydminster's status as a border city straddling the provincial border, the airport is located entirely within Alberta, whereas the old airport was within Saskatchewan. Remnants of the old airport are still visible today at 53°17′54.45″N 110°00′03.85″W / 53.2984583°N 110.0010694°W / 53.2984583; -110. ...
A municipal district (MD) is the most common form of all rural municipality statuses used in the Canadian province of Alberta.Alberta's municipal districts, most of which are branded as a county (e.g. Yellowhead County, County of Newell, etc.), are predominantly rural areas that may include either farmland, Crown land or a combination of both depending on their geographic location.
A topographic map of Alberta, showing cities, towns, municipal district (county) and rural municipality borders, and natural features. Alberta, with an area of 661,848 square kilometres (255,541 square miles), is the fourth-largest province after Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. [26]