Subject: Re: More about the Lloydminster Border Marker Towers
Date: May 31, 2003 @ 01:42
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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http://www.bigthings.ca/alberta/lloyd.html
makes it official & clear i think
that the towers were only fanciful depictions of the actual border
which evidently does indeed run down the middle of the road

both knuckleheaded ideas if you ask me
& good insticts on jespers part to sniff them out

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray
<doug@d...> wrote:
>
> This news article says they're gone:
>
> http://www.marnieko.com/towers.htm (dated Sept 10, 2001)
>
> But I would think that they are back if the Lloydminster city site
has
> them on their website.
>
> This got me thinking about Jesper's question as to the actual
location
> of the border. I doubt Alberta would build a highway right on
the
> border. My thinking is that the border should be on the east
side of
> the highway. Of course, as our border expeditions have
shown, borders
> don't follow logic!
>
> Doug